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Entrepreneurship Students Person-Environment Fit: A Study Of Two Public Higher Learning Institution In Malaysia

This study was conducted to determine the congruency between the type of student personality and the type of environment area of specialization based on Holland’s Individual-Environmental Congruence Theory among engineering students of two universities in Malaysia. The subjects of this study were 2...

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Main Authors: Ahmad Rozelan, Yunus, Amir Aris, Syed Najmuddin Syed Hassan
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Language:English
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/6314/1/P046.pdf
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spelling my.utem.eprints.63142015-05-28T03:41:51Z http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/6314/ Entrepreneurship Students Person-Environment Fit: A Study Of Two Public Higher Learning Institution In Malaysia Ahmad Rozelan, Yunus Amir Aris Syed Najmuddin Syed Hassan H Social Sciences (General) This study was conducted to determine the congruency between the type of student personality and the type of environment area of specialization based on Holland’s Individual-Environmental Congruence Theory among engineering students of two universities in Malaysia. The subjects of this study were 276 students who were selected using the purposive random sampling of entrepreneurship program students. The instrument used in this study was the Holland’s Self-Directed Search (SDS). The finding of this study showed that there was no significant congruence between the type of student personality and their area of specialization. The finding of this study also showed that there was a significant difference in personality between male and female student of entrepreneurship program in one of the university, but there was no significant difference in personality between male and female student of entrepreneurship program in the other university. Generally the finding of the study showed that the entrepreneurship students had chosen the area of specialization that is not congruent to their personality. In view of the findings, several implications and recommendation were put forward. Keywords: Person-Environment Fit, Congruency, Entrepreneurship, Self-Directed Search 2012-09-26 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/6314/1/P046.pdf Ahmad Rozelan, Yunus and Amir Aris and Syed Najmuddin Syed Hassan (2012) Entrepreneurship Students Person-Environment Fit: A Study Of Two Public Higher Learning Institution In Malaysia. In: @nd Sout East Asia Psychology Conference, 26-28 September 2012, Kota Kinabalu.
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topic H Social Sciences (General)
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Ahmad Rozelan, Yunus
Amir Aris
Syed Najmuddin Syed Hassan
Entrepreneurship Students Person-Environment Fit: A Study Of Two Public Higher Learning Institution In Malaysia
description This study was conducted to determine the congruency between the type of student personality and the type of environment area of specialization based on Holland’s Individual-Environmental Congruence Theory among engineering students of two universities in Malaysia. The subjects of this study were 276 students who were selected using the purposive random sampling of entrepreneurship program students. The instrument used in this study was the Holland’s Self-Directed Search (SDS). The finding of this study showed that there was no significant congruence between the type of student personality and their area of specialization. The finding of this study also showed that there was a significant difference in personality between male and female student of entrepreneurship program in one of the university, but there was no significant difference in personality between male and female student of entrepreneurship program in the other university. Generally the finding of the study showed that the entrepreneurship students had chosen the area of specialization that is not congruent to their personality. In view of the findings, several implications and recommendation were put forward. Keywords: Person-Environment Fit, Congruency, Entrepreneurship, Self-Directed Search
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Ahmad Rozelan, Yunus
Amir Aris
Syed Najmuddin Syed Hassan
author_facet Ahmad Rozelan, Yunus
Amir Aris
Syed Najmuddin Syed Hassan
author_sort Ahmad Rozelan, Yunus
title Entrepreneurship Students Person-Environment Fit: A Study Of Two Public Higher Learning Institution In Malaysia
title_short Entrepreneurship Students Person-Environment Fit: A Study Of Two Public Higher Learning Institution In Malaysia
title_full Entrepreneurship Students Person-Environment Fit: A Study Of Two Public Higher Learning Institution In Malaysia
title_fullStr Entrepreneurship Students Person-Environment Fit: A Study Of Two Public Higher Learning Institution In Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Entrepreneurship Students Person-Environment Fit: A Study Of Two Public Higher Learning Institution In Malaysia
title_sort entrepreneurship students person-environment fit: a study of two public higher learning institution in malaysia
publishDate 2012
url http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/6314/1/P046.pdf
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