Attitudes of University Youth Toward Entrepreneurship: a Field Study at the Faculty of Agriculture, Damanhour University

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This study aimed basically at identifying, the attitudes of university youth towards entrepreneurship, The population research represented in the total students in the fourth grade of the faculty of agriculture, with all their scientific disciplines, they were 778 student. A simple sample was selected randomly ; It was amounted to 160  student. Step – Wise Regression and Person's Correlation were  used to know the influence of some independent variables such family size, standard of family income, the degree of geographical openness, the degree of cultural openness, the degree of achievement and level of social participation, on the independent variables that were represented in the level of entrepreneurship knowledge of university youth  and their attitudes towards entrepreneurship. Regarding the Comparative Analysis (t- test) there were significant differences in the independent variables according to Gender, differences of rural and urban. The results of the t-test showed that there were significant differences between urban and rural in favor of urban areas with regard to the level of the attitudes towards entrepreneurship, the value of ( t- ) was 2.180 *, which is a significant value. Suggestions are discussed in this study as well.
 

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