Abstract:

The aim of the study is to determine the relationship between university students' social appearance anxiety and their entrepreneurship level. The sample of the study consisted of a total of 235 people, 87 males and 148 females, who were selected by the purposeful sampling method, studying at the Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences of Istanbul Ayvansaray University. As a data col-lection tool in the research, besides the personal information form; Hart et al. (2008) and "Social Ap-pearance Anxiety Scale" adapted to Turkish by Doğan (2010) and "Scale of University Students Entrepreneurship" developed by Yılmaz and Sünbül (2009) were used. After the normal distribution of the data was understood, the analyzes were performed by independent t-test, ANOVA and Pearson Correlation tests. Analysis results; It was determined that there is a significant difference between social appearance anxiety and entrepreneurship levels of individuals according to their gender. According to the class variable, it was determined that there is a statistically significant difference in the entrepreneurship levels of individuals. It was determined that there is a difference between social ap-pearance concerns and entrepreneurship levels according to the welfare status of the participants. As a result, it was determined that individuals' social appearance concerns and entrepreneurship levels differ according to sociodemographic characteristics.

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