Abstract
The study investigated the psychological characteristics of entrepreneurship of 829 college students in Chinaby questionnaire. The psychological characteristics include five aspects: entrepreneurial capacity, entrepreneurial belief, entrepreneurial consciousness, entrepreneurial motivation, and entrepreneurial determination. In the five factors, the entrepreneurial consciousness of college students is the highest, and the other four are almost at the same level. There is significant difference on entrepreneurial belief, consciousness, and motivation in different gender of students. Also there is significant difference on entrepreneurial consciousness in different major students and on entrepreneurial motivation in different degree students. However, the college students only with high entrepreneurial consciousness are not enough to succeed in business. The other four psychological characteristics are not only essential to entrepreneurship, but also necessary to their future professional development. College students should have a lot of preparation and accumulation on the other four psychological characteristics of entrepreneurship, and give much more effort to improve them.
Highlights
The entrepreneurship is more and more becoming an inseparable part of the global DNA, and it should become reasonable, or more self-evident choice (Schramm, 2009)
We explored the psychological characteristics of entrepreneurship of college students on the basis of study about successful entrepreneurs
We interviewed 5 college students who were in successful entrepreneurship, and collected some views about psychological characteristics of successful entrepreneurship
Summary
The entrepreneurship is more and more becoming an inseparable part of the global DNA, and it should become reasonable, or more self-evident choice (Schramm, 2009). Peter Drucker, American management master, he pointed out, entrepreneurial employment was one of the main driving force of economic development in the United States and the core of the success of its employment policy. In China, to ensure sustained economic development and enhance the national innovation, and ease the growing social pressure on employment, successful entrepreneurial activity is critical. College students are a vital force to participate in entrepreneurial activities (Gong & Xie, 2009). They will become job seekers, and job creators. How is the current situation of their entrepreneurship?
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