The Role of Entrepreneurial Personality Profile and Motivational Factors in Developing Agricultural Student's Entrepreneurial Intentions in Western Regional Universities

In recent years the topic of entrepreneurship has become a major focus in the social sciences, with renewed interest in the links between personality and entrepreneurship. Drawing on the Theory of Planned Behavior, we investigated the role of motivational factors (i.e., attitudes toward entrepreneurship, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control) and entrepreneurial personality (Big Five profile) in shaping entrepreneurial intentions. Focusing on agricultural students’ entrepreneurial intentions, we investigated entrepreneurial personality as a distal variable in the TPB model. The statistical population of this research consisted of 1450 senior agricultural students at four public universities in the west of Iran (N=1450). According to a table developed by Bartlett et al., a sample of 300 students was chosen through random stratified sampling method. Data was collected using a questionnaire survey. The results of structural equation modelling indicated that entrepreneurial intentions were predicted by attitude towards entrepreneurship and perceived behavioral control (P