Emotional Intelligence and Entrepreneurship

The aim of this study was to investigate the emotional intelligence components as predictors of entrepreneurship in people. The sample consisted of ۳۸۰ undergraduate students (۱۹۰ males and ۱۹۰ females) who were studying at different faculties of Shahid Chamran University in Ahwaz. These individuals were randomly selected from the whole list of students. In this research, a number of measurement tools were used for gathering information. Which include; emotional intelligence questionnaire BAR-ON and questionnaire measuring of your entrepreneurial traits MET, whose validity and reliability were repeatedly investigated in Iran. Also, to increase the accuracy of measurement tools, the reliability of some of these questionnaires was calculated using Cronbach’s alpha and split - half methods. The analysis of the present research data was done in both descriptive and inferential levels. At the descriptive level, average and standard deviation of the scores of the subjects and in the inferential level, Critical analysis was used in a simultaneous and step-by-step method. The results showed that except components of reality test and Impulse control of emotional intelligence, other variables are good predictors for entrepreneurship in people. In fact, this study showed that is possible Entrepreneurship and non-entrepreneurship of people can be predicted from emotional intelligence variables. This study showed that it is possible to predict Entrepreneurship and non-entrepreneurship based on emotional intelligence variables. Finally, the results obtained of this study were discussed in detail.