Dimensions of Entrepreneurial Character: Evidence from Indonesia
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Abstract
Entrepreneurship education is to be a solution to the unemployment problem. Entrepreneurial character is for someone to act as an entrepreneur. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the instrument of entrepreneurship character among students from various universities in Indonesia who adopt entrepreneurship education in the curriculum. The research focused on the operational process of entrepreneurial characteristics of 23 dimensions. The subjects of this study were 357 undergraduate students attending entrepreneurship education. Psychometry is the research method, and SPSS and AMOS-assisted factor analysis to analyze the results. The results showed that there was one indicator (Kbtp 10) that dropped in the factor analysis because it did not meet the requirements (0.486 < 0.5). For EFA calculation, two (2) dimensions dropped because they were accommodated in other dimensions/indicators and did not meet the calculation requirements. In the end, five (5) new dimensions represent ...
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