Exploring psychosocial factors influencing women entrepreneurships of Bangladesh

Pages: 151-154
Farjana Begum (Department of Psychology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh)

The development of entrepreneurship in Bangladesh is very challenging and cumbersome especially for woman. It is barred by a number of factors concerned with social, economic, motivational, environmental, and personal in nature. Women who are enjoying favorable environment in this regard have the chance to be entrepreneurs. The present study was tested (i) To explore psychosocial correlates of women entrepreneurship in Bangladesh, (ii) to find the economic status and factors that motivated women to go into entrepreneurship, (iii) to investigate whether there is any relationship with self-efficacy and locus of control in women entrepreneurs. A questionnaire package comprising of the Bangla version of self-efficacy, and locus of control scale along with a Personal Information Form (PIF) were administered on purposively selected on a group of 60 women entrepreneur of different organization in Bangladesh. The age range was 22-45 with an average age of 32 years. For the analysis of the obtained data frequency count and percentage of responses made by the women entrepreneur about their psychosocial and motivational factors were calculated. The findings have been interpreted in the light of past studies.