Big Five Factors and Emotional Intelligence: A Case of Small Scale Enterprise Women Entrepreneurs

This study is an attempt to determine the personality traits and emotional intelligence among small scale women entrepreneurs. The sample comprised 40 women belonging to small scale industry. NEO PI-R and Mangal Emotional Intelligence Inventory were administered on the respondents. The women entrepreneurs scored high means on openness to experience, extraversion, conscientiousness, and agreeableness but low on neuroticism. The results also show that the entrepreneurs are high in emotional intelligence. Correlational analysis revealed that there is negligible negative relationship between extraversion and emotional intelligence and also that there is negligible negative relationship between neuroticism and emotional intelligence. But openness and conscientunsness were found to be positively correlated with emotional intelligence.