Mania Risk and Entrepreneurship: Overlapping Personality Traits

The goal of this paper is to briefly review extant findings on bipolar disorder and entrepreneurship, and then to develop a model of personality traits that might link mania risk with entrepreneurial intent and entry. Findings from a large set of cross-sectional and longitudinal studies indicate that people diagnosed with bipolar disorder, as well as those with subsyndromal forms, show personality traits such as high ambition, confidence, and...