Psychological Readiness for an Entrepreneurship at the Students Planning to Open their Business in the Construction Branch

Abstract:

In Russia both large real estate construction companies and small firms successfully work. The construction is attractive to entrepreneurs. Many students of the construction university plan to open their own business. For this purpose, profile construction education, education in the field of management and certain personal qualities are necessary to have. Necessary for the entrepreneur qualities are heterogeneous. One of them are congenital, others are the result of the development of relevant abilities, and the third are described as the skills reached as a result of training and practical experience. Entrepreneurial capabilities are well studied. But psychological readiness for business activity is studied a little. The projective technique "Big money" reveals seven types of psychological readiness for an entrepreneurship. Students-builders with the high level of entrepreneurial capabilities have different psychological readiness. A small number of students has high levels of capabilities and psychological readiness. It explains the reason of a small number of successful entrepreneurs.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volume 931)
• Pages: 1154-1159
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.931.1154
• Online since: September 2018
• Authors: Elena V. Romanova*
• Keywords: Construction, Entrepreneurial Abilities, Entrepreneurship, Personal Business, Projective Technique, Psychological Readiness, Students

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