The Relationship Between Big Five Personality And Entrepreneurial Intention Of African Students

Based on the worldwide educational experiences,achieving the promotion of entrepreneurship to employment is becoming an important export to alleviate the college graduates' employment pressure and solve the social problems,which is of great significance for entrepreneurship education of African universities.As the driving factor of the entrepreneurial behavior,the entrepreneurial intention is a critical and important prerequisite for the individual's entrepreneurial behavior and it can predict the future entrepreneurial behavior very well,which makes entrepreneurial intention becomes the important starting point for the entrepreneurship research.At present,the research on the university students' entrepreneurial intention is a hot issue in the academic circle and the practice circle.Based on the theory of entrepreneurial cognition,this paper built a research model and it took the questionnaires that were designed with the existing mature and selected African college students enrolled in three different universities in Congo as the research object.It analyzed the collected data based on the statistical analysis software such as Microsoft Excel,SPSS21.0 and AMOS17.0.And it researched the direct influence of the extraversion,openness and emotional stability on the entrepreneurial alertness and entrepreneurial intention,and explore the mediating role of entrepreneurial alertness between personality and entrepreneurial intention.The main conclusions of this research are as follows:(1)students with personality traits such as Extraversion and Openness to experience have a positive effect on the Entrepreneurial Intention;(2)unexpectedly,Emotional stability does not have a positive impact on entrepreneurial intention;(3)the study reveals that entrepreneurial alertness has a positive and significant impact on entrepreneurial intention;(4)Entrepreneurial alertness has mediating effects on the relationship between Extraversion and Entrepreneurial Intention,as well as the relationship between Openness to experience and Entrepreneurial IntentionIn the conclusion section,this paper summarizes the data analysis results,and reaches the main conclusions and corresponding management implications.It also analyzes and summarizes the lack of the research,and prospects the future research directions.