السمات الشخصية المميزة لموهبة ريادة الأعمال في ضوء العوامل الخمس الكبرى للشخصية لدى رواد الأعمال بالمملكة العربية السعودية

الملخص EN

The study aimed to explore the personality features of the entrepreneurial gift in the light of The Big Five Factors of Personality of entrepreneurs.

Meanwhile, It aimed to explore variations in terms of: The nature of the project, the gender and the age variables.

The Big Five Factors of Personality scale was applied to a sample of entrepreneurs.

Data was collected from 107 entrepreneurs.

A set of conclusions was drawn based on the data: The conclusions revealed the fact that entrepreneurs have a high level of awakening of consciousness, followed by the agreeableness variable then extroversion with a moderate degree.

On the other hand, the least ranked variables were openness to experience, then neuroticism with a moderate degree for both of them.

The conclusions revealed that variations exist between entrepreneurs in terms of the nature of the project variable attached to the factor of Neuroticism, That is in favor of both founders of emerging companies, and founders of medium enterprises as far as the factor of openness to experience is concerned.

There were also variations in gender in favor of males in the neurotic variable, and no variations were found between genders in the other ones.

There were no variations between them in The Big Five Factors of Personality due to the variable of age.

Based on the conclusive results of the study, the importance of paying attention to the personal characteristics of those with entrepreneurial gift was emphasized by designing educational programs compatible with the entrepreneurial characteristics, and transforming them into permanent behaviors by strengthening them in these programs.

The study suggested conducting more studies on the conceptual definition of entrepreneurial gift and its traits.