Effect of Entrepreneurship on Attitude and Self- Employment Intention of Youths in Imo State

Abstract

The world needs youths who are innovative, dynamic, smart, daring, efficient, determined, modern and employable or, in one word entrepreneurial. The study is on the effect of entrepreneurship on attitude and self-employment of youths in Imo State (A study of Owerri Municipal Area). The paper is a descriptive study and adopted the survey research design. A sample size of 94 was determined from a population of 120 using the Taro Yammeh formula. The product moment correlation and simple regression analysis was used in analyzing the research questions and hypotheses with the aid of SPSS version 20. Result shows that the attitude toward entrepreneurship, socio-economic factor and demographic factors all have significant effect on self-employment intention of young people in Owerri Municipal Area of Imo state. The study however, recommend among others that government and study institutions should make for an entrepreneurial environment that could take care of exogenous factors that indirectly influences intentions and behavior of intending entrepreneurs. The study concludes that attitude, socio-economic factors and demographic factors are synonymous with entrepreneurship and thus have significant effect on self-employment intention of youths.