IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

IIARD International Journal of Economics and Business Management (IJEBM )

E-ISSN 2489-0065
P-ISSN 2695-186X
VOL. 9 NO. 8 2023
DOI: https://doi.orgDOI 10.56201/ijebm.v9.no8.2023.pg25.35

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Entrepreneurial Socio-psychological Adjustment and Employment Opportunity Identification of Business Education Students in Ignatius Ajuru University of Education

Dr. OKIRIDU, Obulord S.Frank. & NKWO, Franklin Obusor

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Abstract

The study examined the relationship between entrepreneurial socio-psychological adjustment and employment opportunity identification among business education students at Ignatius Ajuru University of Education. Two objectives—research questions and hypotheses—guided the study. A correlation survey research design was adopted. The population of the study was 365 final-year undergraduate Business Education students in the 2021–2022 academic session, with a sample size of 320 students, which is an 88% return rate. Two different sets of questionnaires were used for data collection. The copies of the questionnaires were validated by three experts: two business educators and one psychometrician. The reliability of the instruments was established, and the computations yielded coefficient indexes of 0.81 and 0.89 for entrepreneurial socio-psychological adjustment and employment opportunity identification, respectively. The research questions and hypotheses were answered and tested using Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC), respectively, at the 0.05 level of significance. The study exposed the fact that assimilation and integration relate to employment opportunity identification. The study recommended that the stakeholders who are saddled with the core responsibility of planning and executing the curriculum of the entrepreneurship education program should systematically review the curriculum in order to accommodate the concept of assimilation and integration as a component of entrepreneurial socio-psychological adjustment into the program.

keywords:

Adjustment, Entrepreneurial socio-psychological, Employment Opportunity Identification

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