The Effect of Individuals’ Personality Characteristics on Career Value (Entrepreneur): A Research on Entrepreneurship Inclinations of Associate Degree Students

The purpose of this research is to examine the effect of individuals’ personality characteristics on career value (entrepreneur). In the context of this research, the relationships between individuals’ gregarious-extraverted, warm-agreeable, assured-dominant, unassuming-ingenuous, personality characteristics, and their entrepreneurship inclinations are determined. The research was carried out on students who studies at Tekirda？ Nam？k Kemal University. 208 questionnaire forms which were accepted as valid from 220 questionnaires were evaluated. The obtained data were analyzed by using the SPSS program. As a result of the correlation and regression analysis made, meaningful in the positive direction but weak relationship was found between the warm-agreeable and unassuming-ingenuous personality characteristics and the entrepreneurial dimension of the career value. The warm-agreeable and unassuming-ingenuous personality characteristics affect individuals’ entrepreneurship inclinations positively. In addition, the Mann-Whitney U test was conducted to determine the difference between the undergraduate students who took the entrepreneurship course and those who did not take the course and statistically no significant difference between the students was found