| Nowdays, more and more people take the entrepreneurship as a career choice.Since the1990s, foreign studies have demonstrated the effects of big fivepersonality on employee’s entrepreneurial intention by using the meta-analysis, butthere is no agreeed results about the big five personality dimensions onentrepreneurship field and there has no mediation effect study between the big fivepersonality and entrepreneurial intention. This study is trying to find the relationshipabout whether there are effects of the dimensions of big five personality onemployee’s entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intention in companiesfrom China. From perspective of the social cognitive theory, this study aims toexamine the mediating effects of entrepreneurial self-efficacy between big fivepersonality and entrepreneurial intention.The structured questionnaire is used to collect the research data for cooperateemployees. All item scales in the questionaire are translated from foreignresearches’s maturity scales which have a good convergent and discriminationvalidity and measured on a Likert scale. The valid sample are consisted with238employees from5Shenzhen IT companies. The convergent validity anddiscrimination validity of the valid data are analyzed by using the SPSS17.0andAMOS5.0software, and the five hypotheses in this study are tested by thehierarchical regression.The research results show that: for China companies, emotional stability has noeffect on entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intention; extraversion,openness, conscientiousness have positive effects and entrepreneurial self-efficacyand entrepreneurial intention; agreeableness has positive effect on entrepreneurialself-efficacy, and has no effect on entrepreneurial intention. entrepreneurialself-efficacy mediated the relationship between extraversion, openness,conscientiousness and entrepreneurial intention. Research results were discussed inthe end. |
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