Relationship Between some Psychological Antecedents of Entrepreneurship with Entrepreneurial Tendency among University Students
Journal Title: International Journal of Social Sciences and Education - Year 2016, Vol 6, Issue 3
Abstract
Entrepreneurships considered as a suitable strategy for achieving economic developments and creation of employment opportunities. Recently, investigation of entrepreneurial tendency among university students has gained great importance by researchers and practitioners. Object: The purpose of this study was to review the relationship between some psychological antecedents such as creative self-efficacy, autonomy, risk-taking, need for achievement, and empowerment with entrepreneurial tendency. Methods: In this study, 250 students were selected as sample by using cluster sampling technique. The instruments used in this study were consisted of Zhou and George creative self- efficacy questionnaires (2001), entrepreneurial tendency questionnaires of Aution, Keeley and Klofsten (1998), and independence orientation and risk-taking Questionnaires of Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDI -I).The research data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis simultaneously. Results: The factor analysis results indicated that five factors of creative self- efficacy, independence orientation, risk-taking, need for achievement and capability, have included 54.42percent of students' entrepreneurial tendency variations. Among all variables, the highest (0.38) and lowest (-0.015) amounts of beta coefficients were belonged to creative self- efficacy and independence orientation, respectively.
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Ali Afshari, Soheila Moghaddam Tabrizi
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