Abstract:

Entrepreneurship intention is affected by both the personality traits and the environmental contexts in which it grows due to its characteristic structure. From this point of view, the relationship between entrepreneurship intention, grit and childhood experiences that students acquired as a result of their parents' attitudes and behaviors were tried to be revealed in this study. For this purpose, a research was carried out on the 4th grade students of the health management department studying at the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences of Süleyman Demirel and Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy Universities. A total of 226 people collected data using the survey method. This data set was analyzed with AMOS 23 and SPSS 22 package programs. According to the findings, childhood experiences affect the grit negatively. However, it has determined that it has no significant effect on entrepreneurship intention. In addition, it has been revealed that grit has a significant and positive effect on entrepreneurial intention. Important findings were also obtained in terms of the dimensions of the scales. Submissive, threatening and worthless memories exposed in childhood are also reflected in the lives of individuals in adulthood. In this context, negative memories sometimes undermine the entrepreneurial intention and grit in reaching goals, while sometimes they can support the emergence of feelings such as breaking the chains of obedience, freedom and self-control. In addition, it is seen that grit by insisting on long-term effort can feed entrepreneurial intention.

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