The Role Of Entrepreneurial Personality Traits On Entrepreneurial Intention: A Research In Mersin University

In recent years, entrepreneurship has become a very important issue with the social aspects of the economy as well as the economic situation, and research are a is increasing day today. Entrepreneurship can be defined as taking both he advantage of opportunities to bring together existing pieces and bringing out market share. The intention of entrepreneurship is that people must be willing or are able to set up and run their businesses. Personality trait sare one of the important factor saffecting the intention of entrepreneurship. The aim of this study is toshow the effect of the personality traits of the university students on entrepreneurial intent. In addition to this purpose, the effect of demographic variables on the entrepreneurial intentions was examined. Forth is purpose, research was carried out with 320 students from Mersin University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. A question naire was used as a data collection tool, correlation and regression analysis, t-test, one way variance (ANOVA) analys is were applied according to collected data and research questions. As a result of statistical analysis; It has been found that personality trait sare an important measure of entrepreneurship intention. It has been determined that 'personality traits' and 'tolerance to uncertainty' have a significant effect on entrepreneurship intention. Besides, it was found that there is a significant difference between some of the demographic variables such as '' family income, mothe reducation status, successful entrepreneur modeled in family and close environment '' and intention of entrepreneurship. As a result of the study, suggestions were presented to increase students' entrepreneurial intentions based on the findings obtained without researc