Methodology and Results for a Study on Need for Power and Entrepreneurial Intent

This paper presents the methodology and results of a study conducted on the relationship between the need for power and entrepreneurial intent. The study was conducted on 149 students of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. The methodology involved online and offline data collection methods, and the results suggest that there exists an undocumented relationship between the need for power and the ambition of entrepreneurship.

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Table of Contents
Methodology....................................................................................................................................2
Participants..................................................................................................................................2
Procedure.....................................................................................................................................2
Materials......................................................................................................................................2
Results..............................................................................................................................................3
References........................................................................................................................................4

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Methodology
Participants
The methodology used n the given paper is extremely simple. With the participants, a
total of 149 students of the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore were chosen. Both
online as well as offline methods were used for data collection in 2012. The sample had a mean
age of 22 years. The chosen group was mainly Chinese with very few belonging to other ethical
backgrounds. Students from a broad background were chosen for the program. The first survey
was performed after providing an incentive to the students that they will win a prize in a lucky
draw and the second survey taken by giving SGD$20 as compensation.
Procedure
The student’s activity line lasted for 6 weeks where the first round was conducted online
and the second line was conducted offline. Each session comprised of 8 participants` At first a
form was made to sign which was then followed by instructions adapted from Schultheiss and
Pang(2007) followed by completing the PSE.
Materials
Three primary tools were used for the study to find out whether the need for power is the
primary motivation driver of leadership and entrepreneurial career intent (Draper & Smith,
2014).
In the online round the EP; career aspirations scale was used where the respective
alphabets stand for entrepreneurial, professional and leadership aspirations. The students were

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asked to rate each item in the list from 1-5. Which was used for strongly disagree to strongly
agree.
In the second round the EPL career intention forced choice items were used. In this
various items presented the E,P and L careers which were posed as being mutually exclusive
alternatives a the participants were asked to indicate their intention to follow just one career and
giving up the other. They were asked to describe the path that best describes their objective and
the one which they do not want at all and the mode of answer being check box answers (Watts et
al., 2015).These measures were used to measure the intention of the career in the given analyses.
For measuring the motives, PSE was used. It is a research version in which the different
stories are given in response to pictures that are motivationally arousing. Photos like impressing
a crowd of people, competing with sporting rivals are show and they have to write a story of
their own` The resultants are coded to receive the answers. The winter system of coding was
used in the given study. Scores were found and used for the Results
Results
Regression analyses (multiple) were used to assess the motives predicted in the EL Intent
with each component being examined in different analyses (Draper & Smith, 2014). Through
this, nPow which means need for power was reflected to positively impact and forecast the
entrepreneurial intent and had a negative impact on the professional intent (Menard, 2018).
Whereas, if a higher need for power was observed, it was associated with leadership as well as
entrepreneurial choice. The need for achievement did not have any important impact.
Hence, the results gave away that there exists an undocumented relationship or
connection between the need for power and the ambition of entrepreneurship along with certain

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existent differences in the motivating profiles of actual entrepreneurs from that of the aspiring
ones.
References
Draper, N. R., & Smith, H. (2014). Applied regression analysis(Vol. 326). John Wiley & Sons.
Gregor, M. A., & O’Brien, K. M. (2016). Understanding career aspirations among young
women: Improving instrumentation. Journal of Career Assessment, 24(3), 559-572.
Menard, S. (2018). Applied logistic regression analysis (Vol. 106). SAGE publications.
Watts, L. L., Frame, M. C., Moffett, R. G., Van Hein, J. L., & Hein, M. (2015). The relationship
between gender, perceived career barriers, and occupational aspirations. Journal of
Applied Social Psychology, 45(1), 10-22.