Parental Child Rearing Methods and Personal Entrepreneurial Competencies of Students in Rivers State Public Universities

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to look at how different parenting styles affected the entrepreneurial skills of college students at public universities in Rivers State. In this investigation, researchers used a cross-sectional survey approach. Since all of the research questions pertain to entrepreneurship, this study's population consists of 1,564 undergraduate management majors enrolled for the 2018–2019 school year. This is because these students have already taken entrepreneurship classes relevant to their majors. When accounting for the effects of a finite population, the sample size is 309. The PCRMPECQ is a structured questionnaire that aims to gather data on parental child raising methods and personal entrepreneurial abilities. In order to test our hypotheses, we used the Spearman Rank Order Correlation Coefficient and set the significance threshold at 0.01. Because group influence is a controlling variable, we employed partial correlation to study it. Results showed a correlation between students' levels of entrepreneurial personnel competences and their parents' authoritative parenting styles at public universities in Rivers State. The data analysis allows for the drawing of many conclusions. To start with, kids are more likely to acquire entrepreneurial personal abilities when their parents exhibit authoritative parenting, which is defined as providing a great deal of love and support but also exercising acceptable control and discipline. An entrepreneurial mindset requires a child to be self-reliant, confident, and adept at solving problems. A combination of warmth and support, together with reasonable amounts of control and punishment, is the hallmark of an authoritative parenting style, according to the study's authors.