An investigation of entrepreneurial tendencies of male and female students of physical education: Developing a model for measuring entrepreneurial tendency

Entrepreneurship can result in economical developments and can be considered as a substitution for conventional work culture. In this paper, entrepreneurial tendency is investigated. To this end, a comprehensive model of entrepreneurship is utilized. The questionnaires were distributed among 49 male and 42 female students of physical education. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 18. The results show that there is a significant difference between male and female students in terms of drive and energy, independency, risk taking and creativity attributes. However, no significant difference between them for the need for achievement attribute was found. In general, the findings show that entrepreneurial tendency of male students is higher than female students. In this paper, the weights of these attributes are obtained by fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) and a mathematical equation is developed for forecasting entrepreneurial tendency. The results of FAHP depicted ranking of entrepreneurial tendency attributes as: drive and energy, risk taking, creativity, independency and need for achievement.