Correlates of Personal and Entrepreneurial Traits and Stress among Executive Management Students in Delhi NCR

Stress is an integral part of professional life. In professional life, one encounters innumerable amount of stressors, which induces stress. However, an optimum level of stress can be said necessary for a healthy professional life. The literature sources found that the locus of control, personality, and entrepreneurial style have played an influential role in overcoming stress among working executive. With this assumption, present research is designed to examine the impact of personality, interpersonal relationship, personal traits, and entrepreneurial motivation with stress of executive management students. With incidental sampling method 64 executives turned management student were chosen for the study. The tools used in this study were standardized stress such as professional stress, MBTI, FIRO-B, general enterprising tendency test, self-efficacy, locus of control, and self-esteem scales. The statistical tools such as mean, standard deviation, correlation, T-test, regression analysis, and analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used in this study. Finding indicated that stress of executive management students were influenced by extroversion, introversion, sensing, intuitive, thinking, feeling, judging, and perceiving personality dimensions, and entrepreneurial motivation factors such as need for achievement, need for autonomy, creative tendency, moderate, and drive & determination had significantly predicted stress of executive management students. This research also established relationship between stress and personal traits such as self-efficacy, general self-efficacy, social self-efficacy, self-esteem. Locus of control had significantly influenced or predicted stress. Further results indicated that locus of control, personality type and entrepreneurial traits have positive impact on stress among executive management students, concurrently the personal variables such as self-efficacy and self-esteem have negative impact on stress. From the study, we conclude that improvisation in personality traits and the entrepreneurial motivation would make positive impact on stress among executive management students.