Vol. 12, Issue 5 (2023)

Author(s):
C Mithra Madhuri and M Malarkodi

Abstract:
The purpose of the study is to provide an overview of personality factors on students’ entrepreneurial intentions. Entrepreneurial intentions referred to the desire to be self-employed by starting their own firm or purchasing an existing one. Individuals' entrepreneurial intentions were mainly influenced by personality traits such as neuroticism, openness to experience, extroversion, conscientiousness, and agreeableness. A sample of 120 agribusiness students from the Under Graduate Programme of TNAU, Coimbatore, were selected for the present study. A well-framed schedule was used to collect the data from the respondents through personal interviews. The study revealed that majority of respondents had a thought to become an entrepreneur during their undergraduate (94.00%). The respondents have a high level of interest in entrepreneurship (41.00%). The R square of 0.544 specifies that the level of total variation in the dependent variable, i.e., 54.40%, was large and that personality traits like agreeableness, openness to experience, and neuroticism increased their intention to become entrepreneurs.