The Effect of Personality on EPL Self-Efficacy and Outcome Expectations among Graduates in Nigerian Universities

Adeola Samuel Adebusuyi and Olubusayo Foluso Adebusuyi

Asian Journal of Social Sciences and Management Studies, 2020, vol. 7, issue 4, 265-270

Abstract: The study tests the big five personality traits on entrepreneurial, professional and leadership (EPL) self-efficacies, job and entrepreneurial outcome expectation. It also examined the influence of these efficacies on their corresponding outcome expectations. The study design was cross-sectional and used a sample of 363 new graduates from Nigeria’s tertiary institutions. We used a regression path analysis to determine the causal model tested in this study. Results showed that extraversion, openness and agreeableness significantly lead to concurrently high EPL self-efficacies, neuroticism inversely related to professional and leadership self-efficacies, but conscientiousness did not relate with any of the self-efficacies. Second, agreeableness, neuroticism, and conscientiousness led to job and entrepreneurial outcome expectations. Third, only leadership self-efficacy led to both job and entrepreneurial outcome expectations. These findings deepen our understanding of how entrepreneurial, professional and career mindset can be achieved in an individual.

Keywords: Entrepreneurial; Professional; Leadership; Self-efficacy; Outcome expectations; Personality trait. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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