The Relationship between Intelligence Beliefs, Self-Esteem, and Achievement Motivation and Entrepreneurial Ability in Students of Shiraz University Agricultural College

摘要

Background: Entrepreneurship and its associated concepts can be regarded as an interdisciplinary issue since it is the subject of interest by various fields including psychology, sociology and economy Objective: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between intelligence beliefs, self-esteem, and achievement motivation and entrepreneurial abilities in the students of Agricultural College of Shiraz University. Method: The sample consisted of 148 students. Samples were selected using the random stratified method. The instruments included a questionnaire with 70 questions to measure entrepreneurial ability, a questionnaire with 10 questions to measure intelligence beliefs, a questionnaire with 55 questions to measure self-esteem, and a questionnaire with 40 questions to measure achievement motivation. Data were analyzed using the mean and SD of the variables, drawing graphs, the Spearman correlation coefficient, and regression with repeated measures. Results: The findings demonstrated that the correlations between intelligence beliefs, self-esteem, and achievement motivation and entrepreneurial ability for all subjects were significant, and for male and female respondents, the correlation between the predicting variables and criteria was significant, the results of the regression analyses regarding the prediction of entrepreneurial ability from achievement motivation, intelligence beliefs, and self-esteem show that for all subjects, as well as male and female classifications, they were significant at 0.05. In the regression analysis, intelligence beliefs were proved to be of higher predicting ability. Research suggestions are provided at the end of this paper.