Abstract

REYES CRUZ, JUAN LUIS; GARZON CASTRILLON, MANUEL ALFONSO  and  TAPIA SANCHEZ, BLANCA. DESIGN AND VALIDATION OF A LIKERT TYPE SCALE TO ESTABLISH ENTREPRENEURIAL CHARACTERISTICS. Dimens.empres. [online]. 2018, vol.16, n.2, pp.135-160. ISSN 1692-8563.  https://doi.org/10.15665/dem.v16i2.1599.

This article presents the results obtained in the pilot test of an instrument constructed and validated to establish the influence of university curricular training and social, cultural and economic capital in the development of entrepreneurial characteristics. A Likert-type measurement scale was used, which allowed us to establish the relevance of the dimension as a variable of analysis to explain the relationship that exists between the so-called training, social, cultural and economic dimensions in the development of entrepreneur innovation characteristics. propensity to risk, personality, psychological and demographic aspects. Statistical procedures of factorial analysis were used. Two pilot tests were applied; the first one, to a sample of 22 students of the seventh semester; and the second 29 students of sixth and seventh semester of the degree in administration of the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo, with the purpose of validating the instrument.

Keywords : Likert scale; Training; social; cultural and economic Capital; entrepreneurial characteristics.

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