The relationship between personality traits, and entrepreneurial tendency: A study on final year business students in Hargeisa, Somalia

Each individual has different attitudes and behaviors in the face of events. Personality traits have an impact on an individual's decisions and behaviors. Although we all have the same biological structure, our reactions to events differ. It is possible to evaluate these differences in terms of personality structure. On the other hand, Entrepreneurship is a factor that plays a major role in economic development with the rapid development of technology and the ease of access to information. Moreover, entrepreneurship elevates the standard of living and encourages the emergence of new technologies. Therefore, this study examines the relationship between the big five personality traits and the entrepreneurial tendency of students who are in the final year of the business administration department in Hargeisa city Somalia. For this purpose, a questionnaire was applied to 263 final-year students of business administration at Hargeisa, Golis, and New Generation universities in Hargeisa, Somalia. In this research, SPSS was used to analyze the data. In this study, descriptive analysis was used to see the general form of the data, correlation, and regression analysis to determine the relationship between personality traits and entrepreneurial tendencies, and t-test to determine the relationship between demographic information and entrepreneurial tendencies. Overall, this study found that extroversion, conscientiousness, and openness to experience dimensions of personality traits have a statistically significant and positive relationship with entrepreneurial tendency, while agreeableness and neuroticism dimensions of personality traits do not have a statistically significant relationship with entrepreneurial tendency. In addition, it was found that the entrepreneurial tendency among the participants differed according to their desire to be an entrepreneur in the future. Finally, the researcher recommended that students can develop the personality traits that most affect their entrepreneurial tendencies, by socializing and participating in relevant activities. In addition, the researcher suggests that educational institutions create platforms where students can present their ideas and express themselves.