Personality Traits, Entrepreneurship Education and Opportunity Recognition. A Moderating Relationship

Abstract

The paper investigates wether individual personality traits (Innovativeness INN, Locus of Control LOC, Need for Achievement NAC, Self-Efficacy SEF and Tolerance to Risk TOR) have any effects on individual Opportunity Recognition ability (OPR). The moderating effect of Entrepreneurship Education (ETE) between the traits and opportunity recognition was also assessed.  Survey was admistered to undergraduate students in four different tertiary institutions in Gombe state Nigeria and SEM PLS 3 software was used for the analyses. The results suggest positive and significance effect of INN, LOC, NAC, SEF and TOR on OPR. None moderating effect of ETE with the five trait dimensions with exception of INN was also discovered.