THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION: A RESEARCH ON DEGA PARTICIPANTS

Abstract

This research is conducted to examine the relationship between participants' emotional intelligence levels and entrepreneurial orientations/tendencies and to determine the effect of the variables that constitute emotional intelligence on the variables that make up the entrepreneurial orientation. The sample of the study consists of 95 participants who are entitled to receive training in DEGA (Dokuz Eylül University Entrepreneurship Academy) in 2016-2017 academic year. As a result of the research, it is found out that there is no statistically significant relationship between only the stress management dimension of emotional intelligence and only personel norm dimension of entrepreneurial orientation dimensions; all the other dimensions of the emotional intelligence scale (personal awareness, interpersonal relations, adaptation to conditions and environment and general emotional state) and entrepreneurial orientation scale has a statistically significant relationship with all other dimensions (attitude toward behavior and control of assumed behavior). In addition, when the results of regression analysis are examined, the fact that the R2 value of the model is obtained as 19.1%, stated that 19,1% of the changes in entrepreneurial orientation in general is determined by the emotional intelligence levels of the individuals. In other words, 80.9% of the changes in entrepreneurial orientations are dependent on variables outside of emotional intelligence dimensions