Greek students’ entrepreneurial profile, attitude and behaviour: A multidimensional statistical analysis

Abstract

Entrepreneurial development is of a major importance regarding an economy development. It is therefore need to assess the perception and attitude of university graduating students toward Entrepreneurship Education. A sample of 245 respondents from the Department of Early Childhood Education from School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Western Macedonia was participated in the survey. The study used an instrument, a 5 point Likert scale, named Scale of Entrepreneurial Profile. The scale consisted by seven conceptual contracts named Self-Efficacy, Opportunity Detector, Sociable, Planner, Risk Taker, Leader and Creative. Attitude toward entrepreneurship is evaluated by another item. The results showed that the conceptual constructs Self-Efficacy, Opportunity Detector, Sociable, Planner, Risk Taker, Leader and Creative have a positive effect on entrepreneurship.