{"title":"THE PREDICTIVE ROLE OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE TOWARDS SHAPING ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION OF UNIVERSITY GRADUATES","authors":"Tufail Nawaz, Rafid Ullah, A. Ali","doi":"10.53664/jsrd/04-02-2023-06-293-304","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Current study is an endeavor to empirically test predictive role of emotional intelligence towards shaping entrepreneurial intention of public sector universities graduates of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Total 352 business administration students of final year enrolled in diverse public sector higher educational institutions were surveyed for this purpose. Reason behind choosing this particular target population was because they are just having to complete their academic journey and will have to seriously think about the career option they will have to choose in their professional life. For data collection, questionnaire was used as instrument having Likert type question. As target population of current study is homogeneous hence simple random sampling technique was employed to choose respondents among targeted population. In this regard, measures were adopted from previous literature. Scale reliability, validity, correlation and linear regression were employed as data analyses satirical tools. Results revealed that emotional intelligence playing significant role in predicting entrepreneurial intention of university graduates.","PeriodicalId":17736,"journal":{"name":"June 1","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"June 1","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.53664/jsrd/04-02-2023-06-293-304","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Current study is an endeavor to empirically test predictive role of emotional intelligence towards shaping entrepreneurial intention of public sector universities graduates of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Total 352 business administration students of final year enrolled in diverse public sector higher educational institutions were surveyed for this purpose. Reason behind choosing this particular target population was because they are just having to complete their academic journey and will have to seriously think about the career option they will have to choose in their professional life. For data collection, questionnaire was used as instrument having Likert type question. As target population of current study is homogeneous hence simple random sampling technique was employed to choose respondents among targeted population. In this regard, measures were adopted from previous literature. Scale reliability, validity, correlation and linear regression were employed as data analyses satirical tools. Results revealed that emotional intelligence playing significant role in predicting entrepreneurial intention of university graduates.