Personality Characters of Entrepreneurs Influencing Social Entrepreneurial Intention

Social entrepreneurs’ belief and values such as social justice، equality of rights and solving social problems show that personality traits play a significant role on their behavior and performance. This paper aims to identify the effect of personality traits including extroversion، conscientiousness، openness to experience and neuroticism on social entrepreneurial intention. A quantitative approach is conducted on a sample of national elite entrepreneurs in order to examine the effects of those factors on social entrepreneurial intention. The results of structure modeling estimates indicate that conscientiousness has statistically significant and positive effect on social entrepreneurial intention while neuroticism has statistically significant and negative effect on social entrepreneurial intention