WSEAS Transactions on Systems
Print ISSN: 1109-2777, E-ISSN: 2224-2678
Volume 22, 2023
(Special Issue: Financial Systems and Administration Science, Organizer - Guest Editor: Prof. Michael N. Katehakis, Management Science and Information Systems, Department Rutgers University, NJ, USA) Dimensions of Entrepreneurial Character: Evidence from Indonesia
Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Abstract: Entrepreneurship education is to be a solution to the unemployment problem. Entrepreneurial character is for someone to act as an entrepreneur. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the instrument of entrepreneurship character among students from various universities in Indonesia who adopt entrepreneurship education in the curriculum. The research focused on the operational process of entrepreneurial characteristics of 23 dimensions. The subjects of this study were 357 undergraduate students attending entrepreneurship education. Psychometry is the research method, and SPSS and AMOS-assisted factor analysis to analyze the results. The results showed that there was one indicator (Kbtp 10) that dropped in the factor analysis because it did not meet the requirements (0.486 < 0.5). For EFA calculation, two (2) dimensions dropped because they were accommodated in other dimensions/indicators and did not meet the calculation requirements. In the end, five (5) new dimensions represent the existing 23 dimensions of entrepreneurial character.
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Pages: 29-40
DOI: 10.37394/23202.2023.22.4