Personality Traits: The Mediating Role Of Self Efficacy To Improve Entrepreneurial Intention

This research did to prove self efficacy to mediate the strengthening of personality in realizing the interest of the employees to create and manage their own business. Researcher identified entrepreneurial intention as a prediction of personality traits on star hotel employees in Bali, identify personality traits prediction to self-efficacy on star hotel employees in Bali, identifying entrepreneurial intention as a prediction of self-efficacy on star hotel employees in Bali, analyzing the role of self efficacy in mediating the impact of personality traits on entrepreneurial intention. The study was conducted on star hotel employees in Bali with the number of 151 respondents. The questionnaire returned as 130 with a response rate of 86.09%. Respondents selected by purposive sampling method that was hotel employees who have worked between 5 to 10 years. Each research instrument uses Likert scale measurement. Initial evaluation was done by estimated outer model evaluation or measurement model that is validity and reliability of each reflective construct. Next is the evaluation of structural model (inner model) for testing the research model using WarpPLS 4.0 program. The significance of the parameter is determined by resampling bootstraping and using 500 sub-samples of size equal to that of the original sample. Results and discussion show that the results of hypothesis testing shows the personality traits of star hotel employees in Bali can significantly influence and increase entrepreneurial intention. The personality traits of star hotel employees in Bali can significantly influence and improve self efficacy. The self efficacy of star hotel employees in Bali can increase significant entrepreneurial intention. Testing hypothesis 4 indicates that self efficacy is able to mediate the influence of personality traits of star hotel employees in Bali towards entrepreneurial intention significantly. The mediation variables in this study indicates that the value of self efficacy is included in the category as a partial mediation variable.