Development Of The Entrepreneurial Personality Questionaire

Objective (1) construct theoretical a models of entrepreneurs’ personalities through related discussion from the psychological perspective;(2) formulate Questionnaire on Evaluation on Entrepreneurs’ Personalities.Methods A theoretical model of entrepreneurs’ personalities was constructed based on literature study, job analysis, content analysis and etc. According to the model, an initial scale was developed, a small-sample survey administered, and274effective data collected. Combining analysis and discussion on the data of a research group and quantitative evaluation indexes, the paper developed a forecasting Questionnaire on Evaluation on Entrepreneurs’ Personalities and administered a big-sample survey. Two weeks later,80entrepreneurs were retested. and the final structure of the scale was decided. The scale’s reliability and validity was evaluated by the research group, exploratory factor analysis.confirmatory factor analysis, correction analysis and t test.Results (1) The final scale consistes32items (including2lie-detecting questions);(2) Exploratory factor analysis scale has5common factors-pioneering ability, resource and astuteness, character, creaviticity, and credit, and explained45.85%of the variance;(3) The corrected item/total correction is from0.425to0.884; Scores of the high-score group are much higher than that of the low-score group (p<0.01);(4) The retest reliability is0.892, and that of sub-scales are from0.759to0.991(p<0.01); the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was0.903, that of sub-scales were from0.471to0.846(p<0.01);(5) Confirmatory factor analysis showes that χ2/df is2.61, RMSEA was0.062, RMR is0.038, GFI is0.85. AGFI is0.83, NFI is0.93, CFI is0.94, and indicates that exoerimental data agrees with the model.Conclusions (1)The research competes Questionnaire on Evaluation on Entrepreneurs’Personalities. The analysis on factors suggests that entrepreneurs’ personality consists of the5factors which are pioneering ability, esource and astuteness, character, creaviticity, and credit;(2)Based on the exploratory factor analysis and the confirmatory factor analysis, the scale had a proper factor structure and proved of the5factors;(3)the scale has a good reliability;(4)The Content validity, construct validity and criteria-related validity suggests that the scale has a good validity with the measuring facticity.