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Unemployment, Curriculum Outcomes, Psycho-social Characteristics, and Entrepreneurial Skills of Polytechnic Graduates.
The purpose of this study was to ascertain the relationship between and among gender role-stereotype, personality traits, common business practices, curriculum outcomes and entrepreneurial skills of polytechnic graduates. 60 Polytechnic graduates, 16 of whom were unemployed, 10 self employed, 14 organised private sector employed, and 20 government employed were used in the study. Those were purposively, drawn from Polytechnic graduates found in South-South Nigeria. The design was ex post facto and five questionnaires were used. Data gathered through them were analysed using Multiple Regression Statistic. Findings revealed that of the nine independent variables, psycho-motor curriculum outcomes, and masculine and feminine gender role-stereotype produced and contributed to the entrepreneurial skills of Polytechnic graduates
Entrepreneurial Perceived Material Well-Being Of Unemployed Tertiary Institution Graduates in South-South Nigeria
The study examined psycho-social abilities and their relationship to perceived entrepreneurial material well being of unemployed tertiary institution graduate through output and income stabilization. Variations in the contribution of specific predictors were noted both for the overall and discrete tertiary institutions’ models. But under the overall model, common business practices and personality traits accounted for a large amount of variance in unemployed graduates’ perceived entrepreneurial materials well-being; while among the discrete models of the University (UNI), only common business practice; College of Education (COE), personality traits and common business practices and College of Agriculture (COA), perceived curriculum outcomes, personality traits, and gender role stereotype respectively did. However, neither these nor others did under the discrete models of the Theological Seminary (TLS) and Polytechnic (POL)