Validation a scale for measuring entrepreneurship of managers in governmental organizations

Subject Areas : روان درمانگری

Nasrin  Sohrabifard ¹ (M. A. in Psychometry)
Ali Akbar  Khosravi ² (PhD Islamic Azad University Central Tehran Branch)
Heidar Ali  Hooman ³ (PhD Islamic Azad University Central Tehran Branch)

Received: 2015-06-06 Accepted : 2015-06-06 Published : 2006-06-22

Keywords: Reliability, validity, intrepreneurship, principal component analysis, varimax rotation,

Abstract :

this study attempted to devise and validate a scale for measuring entrepreneurship among managers of the Tehran area’s governmental organizations. A random
   
     

of Iran, participated in this research. In the first stage, a -item questionnaire     
  scale from one to four was used. The results of this stage of the study showed that the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient  

 
 ! d the item-total Polyserial correlations of seven items were not significant. In 

 
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      lacked significant factor loading were omitted from the  
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  reliability      %& & analysis, using a varimax rotation, resulted in the following components: endeavor risk taking, locus of control, fluency, creativity and innovation, flexibility, and uncertainty and ambiguity tolerance.