The role of Emotional Intelligence in the Entrepreneurial Intention of University Students.

Autor: Gelard, Parvaneh, EmamiSaleh, Korosh
Zdroj: Proceedings of the European Conference on Entrepreneurship & Innovation; 2011, Issue 1, p353-361, 9p
Abstrakt: Entrepreneurship is the process of discovery, evaluation and exploitation of opportunities to create future goods and services. Individuals with certain personality traits may be more attracted to the entrepreneurial form of employment than others may be. Successful entrepreneurship requires a blend of analytical, creative, and practical aspects of intelligence, which, in combination, constitute successful intelligence. Successful intelligence is the ability to succeed in life, according to one's own conception of success, within one's environmental context. Thus, success is defined in terms of personal goals. People succeed by identifying their strengths and capitalizing on them and by identifying their weaknesses and either correcting or compensating for them. They do so by adapting to, shaping, and selecting environments. That is, sometimes they change themselves to fit the environment; other times, they change the environment to fit them; still other times, they find a different environment if the one they are in is not adequate for them. Indeed, many entrepreneurs become entrepreneurs because they have been dissatisfied with business environments in which they have worked. In the other hand Individuals with certain personality traits may find entrepreneurship activities more satisfying and thus may persist long enough to actually establish the new venture and become an entrepreneur. So it seems that Emotional intelligence that one of personality characteristics is related with entrepreneurial intention. The aim of this article understands the relation between emotional intelligence and entrepreneurial intention of university students. For this purpose we used sample of 300 students from Islamic Azad University South Tehran Branch. And we get benefit from regression analyze to reach results. The questionnaire of this study is consisting of 18 questions and the reliabilities of this questionnaire were tested by Cronbach's alpha. The Results indicate that emotional intelligence correlate with entrepreneurial intention of university students. Also the role of each factors of emotional intelligence was evaluated and the results were reported. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index