Examining the relationship between social entrepreneurship and social intelligence

The main purpose of this study is to determine the effect of social intelligence on social entrepreneurship. The scope of the research consists of consumers aged 18 and over living in the province of Ağrı. Easy sampling method, which is one of the non-random sampling methods, was used in the study. Data were collected from a total of 455 participants by face-to-face survey method. In the questionnaire used in the study, there are 62 questions in 3 groups. The first group of questions consists of 35 questions to determine the social entrepreneurship levels of the participants, and the second group of questions consists of 21 questions to determine the social intelligence levels. The third group of questions in the questionnaire includes 6 questions to determine the demographic information of the participants. In the analysis of the data obtained within the scope of the research, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, frequency distribution, reliability analysis, exploratory factor analysis and regression analysis were used. SPSS 22.0 package statistics programs were used in the analysis. As a result of the exploratory factor analyzes applied in the study, it was determined that the social entrepreneurship scale had a four-dimensional structure and the social intelligence scale had a two-dimensional structure. As a result of the reliability analyzes carried out in the research, it was determined that the research variables had sufficient reliability. In the research, the social entrepreneurship levels of the consumers were determined as 4.07 and the social intelligence levels as 3.90. As a result of the regression analyzes carried out in the research, it was determined that the dimensions of the social intelligence scale had a statistically significant and positive effect on the dimensions of the social entrepreneurship scale.