The Impact of Psychological Empowerment on the Possession of Entrepreneurial Characteristics among Academic Leaders at Princess Nourah Bint AbdulRahman University

2024
Volume 11
Issue 1
King Khalid University Journal of Educational Sciences

The current study aimed to reveal the impact of psychological empowerment on the possession of entrepreneurial characteristics among academic leaders at Princess Nourah Bint AbdulRahman University. The study utilized a descriptive correlational approach. A questionnaire was distributed to a sample of 121 academic leaders at PNU, following a random sampling technique. The findings indicated that psychological empowerment has a statistically significant positive impact on the possession of entrepreneurial characteristics among academic leaders at PNU, explaining 71.50% of the total variation. The study also revealed that psychological empowerment (including the four dimensions: meaning, competence, self-determination, and impact) impacted all four of the entrepreneurial characteristics (i.e. the need for achievement, initiative, innovation, risk-taking), explaining 65.5%, 60.6%, 43.5%, and 42.6% of the variation in these dimensions, respectively. It also concluded that self-determination was the most significant variable, influencing the four entrepreneurial characteristics. The study also found that the psychological empowerment and entrepreneurial characteristics of PNU academic leaders reached moderate levels: 3.63 and 3.57.

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