Abstract
The aim of this study is to offer an assessment instrument to know the entrepreneurial attitudes of the professorate or educators (EAST), adapted from the Entrepreneurial Attitudes Scale for Students (EASS), and also to provide a first approximation to diagnosis in the field of Spanish-speaking context. A cross-sectional on-line survey was carried out in a single time, in which 155 teachers participated. The new adapted instrument, based on the Entrepreneurial Attitudes Scale for Students (EASS), assesses six entrepreneurial attitudes: proactivity, professional ethics, empathy, innovation, autonomy, and risk taking that define the individual with motivation towards entrepreneurship. Confirmatory factor analysis provides appropriate results: χ2 (120) = 214.225 (p < .001), CFI = .963, TLI = .953, SRMR = .011, RMSEA = .071. Reliability estimations are also calculated, with Cronbach’s alphas ranging from .95 to .97 for the six dimensions. A negative relation regarding entrepreneurship and age is found, as well as higher levels of entrepreneurial attitudes in women than in men. Results show appropriate psychometric properties. As far as literature has been revised, the adaptation presented here is the only developed for this purpose in Spanish-speaking context so far.
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