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Big Five Personality Traits and Entrepreneurial Inclination: A Study Based on Sri Lankan Undergraduates

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Title Big Five Personality Traits and Entrepreneurial Inclination: A Study Based on Sri Lankan Undergraduates
 
Creator RANWALA, R. S.
DISSANAYAKE, D.M.N.S.W.
 
Subject Big Five Traits, Entrepreneurial Inclination, Gender,
 
Description This paper aims to identify impact of Personality on Entrepreneurial Inclination and moderation effect of gender on the original relationship between Personality and Entrepreneurial Inclination of Undergraduates in Sri Lankan Government Universities. This study conducted as a cross sectional survey and used geographical base for sampling. Four universities in Western Province have been used as sample and number of sample subjects was 237 and data were collected by means of a structured questionnaire. The assessment of impact of Personality on Entrepreneurial Inclination was subjected to Independent Sample T-Test and it proved that proved that entrepreneurial inclination varies among the high and low categories of Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism and Openness to Experience. Further the Regression analyses proved that gender weaken the relationship between personality and entrepreneurial inclination.
 
Publisher Academy of Business & Scientific Research (ABSR)
 
Date 2016-04-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://absronline.org/journals/index.php/sbsrr/article/view/627
 
Source Social and Basic Sciences Research Review; Vol 4 No 4 (2016): April; 84-98
2313-6758
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://absronline.org/journals/index.php/sbsrr/article/view/627/647
 
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