Entrepreneurial Perceived Material Well-Being Of Unemployed Tertiary Institution Graduates in South-South Nigeria

Abstract

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)