A RESEARCH ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP TENDENCIES OF INDIVIDUALS WHO BENEFITED FROM STATE PROTECTION AND CARE SERVICES

Today, some of the children in need of protection can be taken under the protection and care of the state. The biopsychosocial development of the child is provided through these institutions, and the child in need of protection benefits from these services provided by the state at various times and periods. Individuals who leave the state's protection and care services as adults are given the right to become a civil servant, and many young people who leave the institutions of the state as adults evaluate this situation and can enter the civil service life. Many individuals have various dreams or plans about begin to work. However, various reasons (personality traits, inability to take risks, economic concerns, etc.) can create an obstacle in front of people's breakthroughs. Entrepreneurship can be defined as creating a business for profit or turning a project into reality by utilizing today's opportunities. In this research, it is aimed to examine the entrepreneurship tendencies of individuals who have benefited from state protection and care services in terms of various demographic variables. The sample of the research consists of 400 male and female participants who benefited from state protection and care services in Turkey. Sociodemographic Information Form and Individual Entrepreneurship Perception Scale prepared by the researcher were used in the study. The findings obtained as a result of the research showed that individuals working in the public sector have a motivation for their entrepreneurial tendencies, but they continue to work in the public sector.