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Management Science Letters
ISSN 1923-9343 (Online) - ISSN 1923-9335 (Print)
Quarterly Publication
Volume 3 Issue 12 pp. 2933-2938, 2013

An empirical investigation on psychological characteristics of entrepreneurs Pages 2933-2938 PDF Download PDF

Authors: Masoumeh sadat Abtahi, Farhad Edrisi, Kobra Abbasi

📋 Author Affiliations:
Masoumeh sadat Abtahi1, Farhad Edrisi1, Kobra Abbasi ORCID 2
1 Department of Humanities, Zanjan branch, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan, Iran
2 Department of Humanities, Research and science Zanjan branch, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan, Iran
doi 10.5267/j.msl.2013.11.004
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🔑 Keywords: Locus of control, Psychological characteristics of entrepreneurs, Risk taking, Tolerance of ambiguity

Abstract: This paper presents an empirical investigation on psychological characteristics of entrepreneurs in one of Iranian universities located in city of Zanjan, Iran. The proposed study of this paper uses a standard questionnaire in Likert scale and concentrates on three components of locus of control, risk taking and tolerance of ambiguity. The study chooses a sample of 350 out of 11,000 students who were enrolled in various areas and detected that students maintained higher level of risk taking (t-student = 10.999, P-value = 0.000), higher level of locus of control (t-student = 29.708, P-value = 0.000) and lower level of tolerance of ambiguity (t-student = -13.584, P-value = 0.000).

How to cite this paper
APA: Abtahi, M., Edrisi, F & Abbasi, K. (2013). An empirical investigation on psychological characteristics of entrepreneurs. Management Science Letters, 3(12), 2933-2938.
Chicago/Turabian: Abtahi, M., Edrisi, F & Abbasi, K. 2013. "An empirical investigation on psychological characteristics of entrepreneurs." Management Science Letters 3, no. 12 (2013): 2933-2938.
AMA: Abtahi, M., Edrisi, F & Abbasi, K. An empirical investigation on psychological characteristics of entrepreneurs. Management Science Letters. 2013;3(12):2933-2938.

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