A Comparison Study on Personality Traits Based on the Attitudes of University Students toward Entrepreneurship

Çolakoğlu, Nurdan; Gözükara, İzlem

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2016.07.122

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“…As stressed by Obschonka and Stuetzer [35], even though some limitations that have been pointed out are significant, "understanding the psychological na-Open Access Library Journal ture and development of the individual entrepreneur is at the core of contemporary entrepreneurship research". Çolakoğlu and Gözükara, [36] explained in their study to compare personality traits (need for achievement, innovativeness, propensity to risk-taking, tolerance to ambiguity and internal locus of Control) based on the attitudes of university students toward entrepreneurship, that students with entrepreneurial intention are more innovative, have higher need for achievement and greater internal locus of control than those who do not have such intention.…”

Section: Entrepreneurial Psychological Traits Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Factors That Influence Entrepreneurial Intention within University Students in Egypt

Sharaf¹,

El-Gharbawy²,

Ragheb³

2018

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The current research aims to propose a framework of the effects of behavioral factors of theory of planned behavior and psychological traits factors on students' entrepreneurial intention, measuring the size of effect, the circumstances under which the effect is clearly observed and studying the weighted effect of each of the behavior and traits elements. A questionnaire was adopted from previous studies and directed to students in the Egyptian universities. A total number of 430 respondents were considered and data were analyzed using AMOS through conducting SEM models for examining the effect of behavior and traits. Results showed that there is a significant effect of attitude toward behavior on students' entrepreneurial intention, while there is an insignificant effect of traits.

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Section: Entrepreneurial Psychological Traits Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Factors That Influence Entrepreneurial Intention within University Students in Egypt

Sharaf¹,

El-Gharbawy²,

Ragheb³

2018

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“…Entrepreneurship is a complex phenomenon, which has led multiple disciplines such as management, economics and psychology area to investigate this concept and issue (Çolakoğlu and Gözükara, 2016). Attitude is a positive or negative belief to display a certain behavior.…”

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“…In addition, Surakarta City which is the object of our research has unique characteristics, a business model that develops based on a creative industry based on culture and local wisdom and comes from a small and micro scale family business. Furthermore, the majority of previous research was dominated by the issue of student entrepreneurial intention (Bux and Honglin, 2015;Nitu-Antonie and Feder, 2015;Çolakoğlu and Gözükara, 2016;Herdjiono et al 2017) meanwhile this research focus with entrepreneur and employee personality characteristic.…”

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The Characteristics of MSME Entrepreneurs in Surakarta, Indonesia

Riani

Prabowo

Andriyani

2019

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This study seeks to characterize the profile of entrepreneurs and core business employees from Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSME) in Surakarta. The characteristics examined in this study are the need for achievement, locus of control, tolerance for ambiguity, creativity/innovation, self-confidence, propensity to risk, and a sense of selfsufficiency/freedom. This study also attempt to determine the distinguishing characteristics between entrepreneurs and core business employees. Forty core business employees and thirty-six entrepreneurs were selected using purposive sampling method and questionnaires as the research instruments. Data testing was performed using descriptive statistical analysis methods and independent sample t-test to examine the differences in the characters reflected in the sample studied. The test results indicate that there are significant differences between entrepreneur and core business employees in their character, including the need for achievement, ambiguity tolerance, creativity/innovation, propensity to risk, and a sense of self-sufficiency/freedom. However, there is no significant difference in the character of selfconfidence and locus of control. In addition, descriptive statistical tests show that entrepreneurs have a higher mean score on all aspects of the characteristics than core business employees.

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“…The competence in question is a skill or character of entrepreneurial character that must be owned during the educational process. Thus, entrepreneurship education seeks to equip students in various activities so that they have the capability of even the entrepreneurial character as an independent and superior person (Çolakoglu & Gözükara, 2016;Kadir et al, 2012;Karabulut, 2016;Luca & Cazan, 2011). According to the research of Korhonen et al (2012) the achievement of learning in character education program consists of two aspects, namely: education focusing on planting the values of entrepreneurial character (internal) and education in shaping students into entrepreneurs portunities on direct experience practice.…”

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Entrepreneurship Education: Is It Important for Middle School Students?

Rina

Murtini

Indriayu

2019

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The aim of this research is to know the important role of the entrepreneurship education program in the school institution. Entrepreneurial trait is needed in any fields of work regarding to the technology development today. Thus, entrepreneurial education needs to be applied in any levels of education as it has an important role for preparing skillful and creative graduates. This study focused on the interesting phenomena of the school effort in integrating entrepreneurship to other subjects and also the application of the entrepreneurship in Satya Wacana Christian Junior and Senior High Schools Salatiga. This study was done by qualitative approach through snowball sampling technique. Data were obtained through observations, interviews, and documentation of the participants who understand the information and central phenomena. Research data analyzed by the analysis of the domain from Spradley. The result of the study showed that entrepreneurship education had an important role to improve the entrepreneurial knowlegde and skills. The integrated education, either in the learning process or in the school entrepreneurship education program, increased the entrepreneurship understanding, character, and behavior. This study is significant because it gives a contribution the schools and students to understand the importance of entrepreneurship education.

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A Comparison Study on Personality Traits Based on the Attitudes of University Students toward Entrepreneurship

Cited by 43 publications

References 28 publications

Factors That Influence Entrepreneurial Intention within University Students in Egypt

Factors That Influence Entrepreneurial Intention within University Students in Egypt

The Characteristics of MSME Entrepreneurs in Surakarta, Indonesia

Entrepreneurship Education: Is It Important for Middle School Students?

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