Are the relationships between fear of failure, self-efficacy, entrepreneurial motivation and happiness of entrepreneurs moderated by gender?

This thesis uses survey data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2013 and multilevel ordinal regressions to investigate whether perceptual variables (fear of failure, self-efficacy) influence happiness and if gender has a moderating effect on the relationships between entrepreneurial motivation, perceptual variables and happiness. Results indicate that perceptual variables have an effect on the happiness of entrepreneurs, that there are no moderation effects of gender on the relationship between perceptual variables and happiness. However, gender does seem to lessen the adverse effects of necessity entrepreneurship on happiness but does not seem to moderate the relationship between opportunity motive and subsequent happiness.