Abstract

QUEZADA, Mirna Elizabeth; VEGA-VALERO, Cynthia Zaira  and  NAVA-QUIROZ, Carlos. Assessment of generic competences of entrepreneurial behavior. Retos [online]. 2021, vol.11, n.22, pp.301-314. ISSN 1390-8618.  https://doi.org/10.17163/ret.n22.2021.07.

Entrepreneurship as a social phenomenon has interested psychology for its study, one of its approaches is the entrepreneurial behavior from the competences, among them the generic / transversal ones. However, an area of opportunity in the literature is the assessment of competences for their fundamental characteristics of observable and demonstrable behaviors through experience. The objective of this study was to design and test the psychometric properties of an instrument for measuring generic entrepreneurial competences. The study was cross-sectional and instrumental with a non-random sample of 142 participants. The instrument was based on a model of three categories of generic competences (personal, interpersonal, functional), as well as on the logic of a behavioral interview and behavioral scale; It was made up of 14 items with four performance gradients where the participant had to respond based on his experience. The Exploratory Factor Analysis yielded a theoretically congruent three-dimensional structure that explains 53.8% of the accumulated variance. The coefficients Alpha de Cronbach (α) y Omega de McDonald (ω) showed adequate internal consistency higher than .80. No configuration, metric or structural invariance was detected between people who have or have not opened businesses. It is concluded that the instrument has the appropriate psychometric properties to continue testing in business entrepreneurs among other entrepreneurship contexts from the behavioral perspective oriented towards competencies.

Keywords : Entrepreneurship; entrepreneur; entrepreneurial behaviour; competencies; generic competences; assessment; validity; reliability.

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