Perbedaan Intensi Berwirausaha Ditinjau dari Tipe Kepribadian pada Mahasiswa Fakultas Psikologi Universitas Medan Area

Abstract

This research aims to determine differences in entrepreneurial intentions in terms of personality types of college students in the Faculty of Psychology, University of Medan Area. The hypothesis was proposed whether there were the differences in the entrepreneurship intention between personality type A to personality type B. Research subjects were 70 of psychology students in Medan Area University in the 7th semester of 2014, using purposive sampling technique. The data was collected by using the method of the entrepreneurship intention scale and the personality type scale. The statistical method is t-test independent. The results showed that: there were the differences in the entrepreneurship intention between personality type A to personality type B. This was known by looking at the value or the difference coefficient(t count = 6.658; P = 0.0000 < 0.05). Based on the average calculating of the hypothetical and empirical mean values, it can be concluded that the personality type A of entrepreneurship intentions are moderate, because (hypothetical mean 72.5 < empirical mean 79.19), however, personality type B of entrepreneurship intentions are low because (hypothetical mean 72.5> empirical mean 61.63).