RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STUDENTS' FAMILY REASONS AND THEIR INTENTION FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP

This paper studies if there is a relationship between (a) the students' rating of the three family related variables as important or unimportant and (b) their intention to start their own business; or their intention to work for someone else; after they have completed their undergraduate education, whether or not they have completed work for a degree. Statistical testing of various responses using eighteen hypotheses found no such relationships. The first nine statistical tests found no relationship between the students' rating of the three family related variables as important and unimportant (Q. 16, 17, and 18) and their intention to start their own business (Q15ab) once they have completed their undergraduate studies whether they have obtained a degree or not-data classified by male, female, and total components. Similarly, the remaining nine statistical tests also found no relationship between the students' rating of the three family related variables as important and unimportant (Q. 16, 17, and 18) and their intention to work for someone else (Q15c) once they have completed their undergraduate studies whether they have obtained a degree or not-data classified by male, female, and total components. This article is one of a kind in two particular ways. One, it presents (a) students' intention for starting a business and (b) students' intention for working for someone else in the same writing; and two, it is based on the data that were collected about ten years ago which has its own historical significance for comparison for future studies. Suggestions for improvement would be highly appreciated.