Proactive Personality and Entrepreneurial Intention among Internship Nursing Students: A Mediating Role of Individual Improvisation

Background: A proactive personality enables students to overcome environmental constraints and move faster towards identifying opportunities, then developing positive improvisations as a critical strategy for dealing with emergencies and risks in the entrepreneur process. Aim: investigate proactive personality and entrepreneurial intention among internship nursing students and individual improvisation as a mediating role. Design: A descriptive, correlational, and comparative research design was used. Setting: The research was conducted at the Faculty of Nursing, Menoufia University, Menoufia governorate. Subjects: included a convenience sample of internship nursing students during the academic year 2022/2023(n= 408). Instruments: Three instruments were used; (1) proactive personality scale, (2) Entrepreneurial Intention Questionnaire, (3) individual improvisation behavior scale. Results: nearly half (48.5%) of studied internship nursing students had a high level of proactive personality while more than half (59.8%) and more than two-thirds of them (67.4%) had a moderate level of entrepreneurial intention and individual improvisation, respectively. Also, a highly positive significant correlation was observed between proactive personality and both entrepreneurial intention and individual improvisation among internship nursing students (p-value