Proactive Personality, Creativity and Political Skills As Predictors Of Entrepreneurial Intentions

Abstract

The study examined the extent to which proactive personality, political skills and creativity predicted entrepreneurial intentions among National Service Personnel in Accra. Using cross- sectional survey design, three hundred and twenty three (323) respondents were conveniently sampled for the study. Participants responded to a questionnaire comprising various demographic measures such as, gender, parental occupation, marital status, religion and role model as well as measures of proactive personality, creativity, political skills and entrepreneurial intentions. Hierarchical multiple regression, Pearson Product Moment Correlation coefficient, moderated mediation analysis and independent t-test were used to analyse the hypotheses. The results indicate that there is a significant positive association between proactive personality and political skills. In addition, proactive personality accounts for more variance in predicting entrepreneurial intentions as compared to political skills and creativity. It was further observed that political skills partially mediate the association between proactive personality and entrepreneurial intentions. Furthermore, a low level of creativity had a stronger effect on the mediated relationship between proactive personality and entrepreneurial intentions through political skills. Moreover, there was no difference between males and females on entrepreneurial intentions. The implications of the findings were discussed against the backdrop of theory of planned behaviour, entrepreneurial event theory as well as other related studies and culturally relevant factors.