Relationship between Entrepreneurial Attitude Orientation and Personality among College Students

With the current influx of various small business coming into existence and further developing into establishments has generated a wave of entrepreneurial avenues being given a heightened importance. The aim of the current study intends to understand the relationship between entrepreneurial attitude orientation and personality among college students. The Entrepreneurial Attitude Orientation Scale (Robinson et. Al., 1991) and NEO-PI-R-FFI (Costa and Mccrae, 1991) were used to assess the entrepreneurial orientation and personality, respectively. The research was conducted on 50 engineering and management students of Chandigarh. Scores were calculated, tabulated, and interpreted to find the correlation using the Pearson's Product Moment Correlation. A positive correlation was found between Entrepreneurial Attitude Orientation with Extraversion, Openness to Experience and Conscientiousness.