A Multidimensional Analysis on the Factors Affecting Entrepreneurial Tendency; A Research on High School Students at the Secondary Education

Entrepreneurship has an important role in the development of countries, increasing the wealth and life standards of societies. In this case, establishing the entrepreneurship tendency of people and the affecting the factors of this tendency would give us specified information about entrepreneurship potential of societies. Moreover, it would guide the other researches onthis topic. To competitiveness, difficulties of starting up a new firm, innovative and creative features, the degree of avoiding risk, family support, decisiveness, need of success and demographic characteristics of individuals would be effective on the action of entrepreneurship. With this study, it is aimed to determine the entrepreneurship tendencies and the factors affecting the entrepreneurship tendencies of senior students in various high schools selected from different districts in Ankara. Also within the scope of entrepreneurship tendency; hypothesis about gender, the schools where students learn and take the course of entrepreneurship were created and tested and last the results were evaluated. The results obtained put forward that there is no gender effect in terms of the entrepreneurship tendency of the students. There is no significant difference between the tendency of entrepreneurship and the schools where students were educated. Finally, it is found that taking entrepreneurship lessons in high school education contributes to the entrepreneurship tendency positively