Study of Entrepreneurship Characteristics among Physical Education Students and Effect of University’s Courses on its Development

The purpose of this research was studying entrepreneurship characteristics among physical education students and effect of university courses on its development. Methodology of this research was descriptive survey, which was done in field study. Statistical population was all male and female bachelor and master students of sport management in Shahid Chamran University of Ahwaz. Sampling method was genius, and all of statistical population were considered as sample size (N=n=155). Tools of collecting data were researcher’s made questionnaires including personal characteristics (8 questions) and specialized courses of bachelor degree of physical education characteristics (12 questions); also standard questionnaire for measuring entrepreneurship characteristic (38 questions). The construct validity of questionnaire was calculated using the exploratory factor analysis (KMO= 0.87) and reliability was calculated via alpha Cronbach (?=0.82), respectively. The descriptive statistics (average and standard deviation) was used to describe the variables of the research, while the inferential statistics ANOVA, follow-up Bonferroni and Pearson Correlation Coefficient was applied to test the hypotheses. Significant level p?0/05 was used. Finding of research showed there was a significant difference between student’s entrepreneurship characteristics. Furthermore, from student’s point of view, specialized courses of bachelor of physical education don’t have any effect on improvement of entrepreneurship abilities. According to research result, it is suggested that specialized courses should be reconsidered and a proper condition for development entrepreneurship activities in education and training plans should be provided.