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JPT Research Digest

Relationship of Gender, Age and Personality on Entrepreneurial Attitude


Brandt, T. (2019). Relationship of Gender, Age and Personality on Entrepreneurial Attitude. Conference Proceedings of the 14th Annual European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, pp. 1-12. DOI: 10.34190/ECIE.19.268

Entrepreneurship has long been considered an important engine for economic growth and wealth creation. This study focused on the role that age, gender, and personality have on entrepreneurial attitudes of adults.

The researcher collected 852 participants over 3 years from populations of students and working adults. The mean age was 40.8, with women comprising 59% of the sample. Participants took the MBTI® assessment and a 5-item questionnaire created by the author measuring entrepreneurial attitude through responses to items on risk-taking and growth-orientation.

The most prevalent preferences of the sample were ESTJ, reflecting the most common preferences in Finnish culture. Men had higher scores than women for entrepreneurial attitude across ages and MBTI preferences. As other studies have shown, preferences for Extraversion and Intuition had greater entrepreneurial orientation than Introversion and Sensing across gender and age. Across the sample, youth and preferences for Extraversion and Intuition most impacted entrepreneurial attitude positively.

Women with preferences in Extraversion and Intuition scored higher at all ages in entrepreneurial attitude than those with preferences for Introversion and Sensing. However, women with preferences for Introversion and Sensing scored higher under 40 than those with the same preferences over 40. And women under age 30 with preferences for Feeling and Judging had higher entrepreneurial orientation than older women with the same preferences.

This study offered valuable replication of type preferences in entrepreneurial attitudes and provided additional insights into the impact of age and gender. As the author suggests, further research could explore life factors, such as marriage, children, and opportunity, that impact entrepreneurial men and women of various ages and types.


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