Emotional intelligence and entrepreneurship tendency: A research on the Adıyaman University students

It has been the subject of various researches that the entrepreneurship field has become very important in societies and the factors affecting the entrepreneurship tendency of individuals. Emotional intelligence is one of these factors. For this purpose, it has been tried to measure the emotional intelligence and entrepreneurship tendencies of the students who took entrepreneurship courses from Adıyaman University. As a result of the analyzes, differences were found between the emotional intelligence and entrepreneurship tendency in terms of some variables of demographic characteristics. Afterwards, it was found that there is a positive relationship between the sub-dimensions of emotional intelligence and total scores and entrepreneurial tendency. According to this, it is necessary to be aware of and develop emotional intelligence in individuals who have an entrepreneurial tendency.