Family Background and Entrepreneurial Intentions among Students in the Department of Entrepreneurial Studies, Veritas University, Abuja

Research has shown that government, non-governmental organisations and private and public universities efforts to increase and sustain the rate of Nigerian students’ entrepreneurial intentions still leaves much to be desired. As such, nascent entrepreneurs and researchers alike are beginning to advocate the triggering of the intentions from their family background. Motivated by the dwindling commitment of students in the Department of Entrepreneurial Studies, Veritas University, Abuja to entrepreneurial activities, this study seeks to investigate the effect of family background (prior experience in family business, family financial status and parental support) on entrepreneurial intentions. The study adopts a cross-sectional survey research design, census method and criterion sampling technique to select the students that completed the questionnaire. The generated