Investigating the role of personality traits in entrepreneurship spirit of Sports Science students

The purpose of this research is to investigate the role of personality traits in the entrepreneurial spirit of Sports Science students. The data gathering tool was a researcher-made and adjusted questionnaire assessing the personality traits of the Iranian entrepreneurs belongs to Kordanij in 2006 and assessing the entrepreneurial skills of individuals belongs to Moghimi in 2006, The two questionnaires were combined for use in this study. That After reviewing and modifying and transferring to the field of research, validation of validity (with a survey of 15 professors of the university specializing) and reliability determination by Cronbach's alpha (α = 0.86) was used. The data of acceptable return questionnaire were analyzed by SPSS software version 22 using Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests and linear regression analysis. the sampling method was available as samples. The statistical population consisted of all students undergoing postgraduate physical education, there were about 700 people in three fields of sports management, sports physiology and sports biomechanics in the universities of Mazandaran province. The sample size was determined on the basis of Krejcie and Morgan's table of 248 people. To prevent the error, 250 people were selected. The results showed that there is a significant relationship between entrepreneurial spirit with Personality traits of risk-taking, center of internal control, success, intellectual health, tolerance of ambiguity, dreaming, challenge, pragmatism have a positive and significant effect on entrepreneurial spirit.