Relationship of gender, age and personality on entrepreneurial attitude
Brandt, Tiina (2019)
Brandt, Tiina
Editoija
Panagiotis Liargovas, Alexandros Kakouris
Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited
2019
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2019122049244
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When growing demand of entrepreneurship, there are lot of hidden potential with women, who still are clearly
underrepresented among entrepreneurs. Men start more businesses and also their firms have more growth. This study is interested if the gender is related also in entrepreneurial attitude and if there may be other explanations to entrepreneurial attitude than gender. Earlier studies indicate that the personality impacts on entrepreneurship thus the both age and personality are studied also in addition to gender. Data consisted 1247 persons and they were grouped in the different age groups: under 30 years, 30-40 years, 40-50 years and over 50 years. Personality was measured with Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), which is commonly used in business and organizational behavior, in both consultancy and research. MBTI describes personality in four dimensions: extraversion introversion, sensing-intuition, thinking-feeling and judging-perceiving. Data analyses were made with ANOVA and with t-test. There were plenty of statistically significant results, and it could be seen that age, gender and personality separately and all together impact on entrepreneurial attitude. The main results indicated that men have higher entrepreneurial attitude than women. Women had the highest entrepreneurial attitude when they were under 30 years, when in case of men the age groups did not differ. Concerning personality, generally extraverted and intuitive preferences had the highest entrepreneurial attitude in both genders and
in all age groups than their counterparts introverted and sensing preferences. Introverted and sensing women tend to have more entrepreneurial orientation when they are between 31 - 40 years, and feeling and judging women when they are under 30 years. The results are discussed related to entrepreneurship education and learning.
underrepresented among entrepreneurs. Men start more businesses and also their firms have more growth. This study is interested if the gender is related also in entrepreneurial attitude and if there may be other explanations to entrepreneurial attitude than gender. Earlier studies indicate that the personality impacts on entrepreneurship thus the both age and personality are studied also in addition to gender. Data consisted 1247 persons and they were grouped in the different age groups: under 30 years, 30-40 years, 40-50 years and over 50 years. Personality was measured with Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), which is commonly used in business and organizational behavior, in both consultancy and research. MBTI describes personality in four dimensions: extraversion introversion, sensing-intuition, thinking-feeling and judging-perceiving. Data analyses were made with ANOVA and with t-test. There were plenty of statistically significant results, and it could be seen that age, gender and personality separately and all together impact on entrepreneurial attitude. The main results indicated that men have higher entrepreneurial attitude than women. Women had the highest entrepreneurial attitude when they were under 30 years, when in case of men the age groups did not differ. Concerning personality, generally extraverted and intuitive preferences had the highest entrepreneurial attitude in both genders and
in all age groups than their counterparts introverted and sensing preferences. Introverted and sensing women tend to have more entrepreneurial orientation when they are between 31 - 40 years, and feeling and judging women when they are under 30 years. The results are discussed related to entrepreneurship education and learning.