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    Entrepreneurship Attitudes and the Big Five: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Between Spain and the United States
    (Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones, 2022) Oliver, Amparo; Schneider, Barry H.; Galiana, Laura; Puricelli, David A.; Schwendemann, Marc; Tomás, José M.
    Culture may interact with personality to facilitate or inhibit en-trepreneurial behaviors. 296 undergraduates in the United States and 257 in Spain completed the Big Five Personality Inventory and the Entrepreneur-ial Attitudes Scale for Students (Mean age = 20.16 years; SD = 3.39). We hypothesized that across cultures, conscientiousness and openness would predict greater risk taking whereas neuroticism and agreeableness would be a negative correlate. Personality variables explained a larger proportion of the variance in entrepreneurial attitudes in the U.S. data. The associations between the personality dimensions and entrepreneurship varied consider-ably by country and gender. Significant positive correlations were found between conscientiousness and risk taking only for Spanish men. Neuroti-cism was significantly and negatively correlated with risk taking only for American participants.