Personality Traits of White-Collar Telecommuters: Perceptions of Graduating Business Students

2001 ◽  
Vol 76 (5) ◽  
pp. 257-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewuuk Lomo-david ◽  
Frank Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Business Students ◽  
White Collar

Vocational Interest Themes and Personality Traits in Relation to College Major Satisfaction of Business Students

2007 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christen T. Logue ◽  
John W. Lounsbury ◽  
Arpana Gupta ◽  
Frederick T. L. Leong
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Business Students ◽  
College Major ◽  
Vocational Interest ◽  
Major Satisfaction

A CROSS-CULTURAL INVESTIGATION OF PERSONALITY TRAITS AMONG ARAB AND AMERICAN BUSINESS STUDENTS

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Hozik ◽  
J.W. Wright
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Business Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
American Business ◽  
Personality Test ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Keirsey Temperament Sorter ◽  
The University

This study identifies differences in the scores of Jordanian and American business students on the Keirsey Temperament Sorter personality test. The test was administered to 137 students at the University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan, and Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. The research results show that, although there are significant differences in personality traits in two of four categories, there are more similarities than differences between the traits identified by these groups of students. This indicates that the personalities and temperaments of business students in Jordan and the United States are not remarkably different.

scholarly journals A dynamic model of personality, schooling, and occupational choice

10.3982/qe890 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 231-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petra E. Todd ◽  
Weilong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Occupational Choice ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Senior Secondary ◽  
Tuition Subsidy

This paper develops a dynamic model of schooling and occupational choices that incorporates personality traits, as measured by the “big five” traits. The model is estimated using the HILDA dataset from Australia. Personality traits are found to play an important role in explaining education and occupation choices over the lifecycle. Results show that individuals with a comparative advantage in schooling and white‐collar work have, on average, higher cognitive skills and higher personality trait scores. Allowing personality traits to evolve with age and with schooling proves to be important to capturing the heterogeneity in how people respond to educational policies. The estimated model is used to evaluate two education policies: compulsory senior secondary school and a 50% college tuition subsidy. Both policies increase educational attainment and also affect personality traits.

Factors Influencing the Entrepreneurial Attitude of Taiwanese Tertiary-Level Business Students

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Fen Chen ◽  
Ming-Chuan Lai
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Stepwise Regression ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Student Attitude ◽  
Tertiary Level ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Entrepreneurial Attitude ◽  
Environmental Cognition ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
Survey Questionnaires

A model of attitude toward entrepreneurship and the factors influencing this were tested with students in the business department at technological colleges and universities in Taiwan. Personality traits were adopted as the independent variable, environmental cognition as the intervening variable, and attitude toward entrepreneurship as the dependent variable. Survey questionnaires (1,085) were distributed to students of which 881 were returned, and 792 of these were valid. The responses were analyzed using stepwise regression and LISREL. Results indicated that student attitude toward entrepreneurship was affected by environmental cognition and personality traits, which indirectly affected attitude toward entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurial intentions: the role of family factors, personality traits and self-efficacy

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 303-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Farrukh ◽  
Azeem Ahmad Khan ◽  
Muhammad Shahid Khan ◽  
Sara Ravan Ramzani ◽  
Bakare Soladoye Akeem Soladoye
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of family background, big five personality traits and self-efficacy on entrepreneurial intentions (EIs) of business students in private universities in Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected with the help of structured questionnaires, 500 questionnaires were distributed among the students and 306 useable questionnaires were received and analyzed. Structural equation modeling was used to investigate the relationship among the study variables. SmartPLS was utilized to run the analysis. Findings The findings revealed a strong relationship between the exogenous and endogenous variables. The variance accounted by the independent variables was 74.3 percent in the EIs of the students. Family background was found to have a positive impact on the EIs of students. The findings also showed a positive relationship between self-efficacy and EIs. Consciousness, extroversion and openness to experience are positively linked with EIs while neuroticism and agreeableness did not show any relationship. Originality/value The study’s findings attract the attention of the academicians to take note of the factors examined while training the students the art of entrepreneurship. This is because this study has revealed that if these factors are not present the intention of the students to start a business venture may prove to be weak. Entrepreneurial activities are one of the biggest ways to reduce unemployment, thus, it is suggested that academicians should develop psychological plans and training to motivate the students to convert their intentions into actions.

Pattern versus level: a new look at the personality-entrepreneurship relationship

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wencang Zhou ◽  
Xi Yang ◽  
Yuanqing Li ◽  
Yanli Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Eastern China ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Personality Profile ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Personality Research ◽  
Process Perspective ◽  
Personality Patterns

PurposeBy using a nontraditional configuration approach, the purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of personality on entrepreneurial intention and success. Previous research has focused on why individuals become entrepreneurs and why some are more successful than others. However, most studies have investigated only single factors or primary personality traits. The current study investigates not only the strength of the personality-entrepreneurship link, but also clarifies the nature of the relationship.Design/methodology/approachUsing two independent samples and an innovative regression-based pattern recognition procedure, the study investigates whether the nature of the personality-entrepreneurship relationship is driven by individuals’ absolute trait levels or by their idiosyncratic configuration of personality traits. The non-entrepreneur sample consisted of 225 business students in Eastern China, specializing in a variety of business subjects. The entrepreneur sample consisted of 120 business owners in a university entrepreneurial park in Eastern China.FindingsResults support hypotheses that the two different types of entrepreneurship criteria are predicted by different personality profile effects. Entrepreneurial intentions are driven by individuals’ personality patterns (peaks and valleys in profiles). In contrast, entrepreneurial success is driven by personality levels (individuals’ relative standing on personality traits compared to other entrepreneurs).Research limitations/implicationsThe findings enrich the understanding of entrepreneurial personality. The more significant contribution of the present study was that it differentiated between personality profile pattern and level effects and investigated whether the nature of the personality-entrepreneurship relationship is driven by individuals’ absolute trait levels (i.e. how high or low they score compared to others), or by their idiosyncratic configuration of personality traits (i.e. their strengths and weaknesses).Practical implicationsThe findings of this study may help entrepreneurs to figure out how to be successful running their own businesses, if they are not graced with a personality pattern that is not favorable to entrepreneurship. In addition, these findings can help entrepreneurship educators to understand how best to train entrepreneurs.Originality/valueThe adoption of both person-centered approach and process perspective of entrepreneurship allowed this study to make major contributions to entrepreneurial personality research.

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