TITLE:
Development and Validation of the Entrepreneurial Opinions Scale among the Cameroonian Self-Made Men and Women
AUTHORS:
S. Nyock Ilouga, A. C. Moussa Mouloungui, Adalgisa Battistelli
KEYWORDS:
Opinions, Entrepreneurship, Intention, Actions
JOURNAL NAME:
Sociology Mind,
Vol.10 No.3,
May
15,
2020
ABSTRACT: The lack of validated evaluation tools on African continent is
detrimental to the development of action research, particularly in
entrepreneurship. The challenge is to reinforce existing mechanisms that can
promote entrepreneurial behavior and at the same time capture the personal
dynamics involved in transforming entrepreneurial intention into action. The
purpose of this study is to develop and validate measurement tools to evaluate
the opinions of Cameroonians in the face of entrepreneurship and
entrepreneurial occupation. The results, obtained from a sample of 2552
students, self-made men and women, revealed a three-dimensional scale (factor
1: Benefactor, 36.68% of the variance; factor 2: Commitment and capacities,
25.7% of the variance; factor 3: availing, 16.64% variance) whose internal
validity (.89) and the stability of the factor structure ensure good psychometric
qualities to the tools.