Personality traits play an important role when it comes to predicting people's entrepreneurial behaviour. The objective of this study was to determine whether the specific traits of enterprising personality predicted entrepreneurial behaviour better than general (Big Five type) traits. The sample comprised 1153 working people (33% entrepreneurs). The mean age of the sample was 41.72 years old (SD = 12.32). The five general personality traits (Big Five) were evaluated using the Overall Personality Assessment Scale and the eight specific traits were measured with the Battery for the Assessment of the Enterprising Personality (BEPE). The differences between entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs were greater in the specific personality traits than in the more general traits, with mean effect sizes of 0.54 and 0.21, respectively. The predictive capacity of the specific traits (R² = 0.21) was greater than that of the general traits (R² = 0.07). The ROC curves for the specific traits gave higher areas under the curve (0.74) than the general traits (0.56). The canonical correlation between the eight specific BEPE dimensions and the Big Five factors was 0.77. The specific personality traits demonstrated better predictive and discriminative capacity for enterprising behaviour than the more general, Big-Five type traits.

人格特质在预测人们的创业行为方面起着重要作用。本研究的目的是确定进取人格的特定特征是否比一般（大五类）特征更能预测创业行为。样本包括 1153 名劳动者（33% 的企业家）。样本的平均年龄为 41.72 岁（SD  = 12.32）。使用整体人格评估量表评估五个一般人格特质（大五项），并使用进取人格评估电池（BEPE）测量八个特定特质. 企业家和非企业家之间在特定人格特质上的差异比在更普遍的特质上更大，平均效应大小分别为 0.54 和 0.21。特定性状（R ²  = 0.21）的预测能力大于一般性状（R ²  = 0.07）。特定性状的 ROC 曲线给出的曲线下面积 (0.74) 高于一般性状 (0.56)。八个特定 BEPE 维度与大五因素之间的典型相关为 0.77。与更一般的大五型特质相比，特定的人格特质对进取行为表现出更好的预测和辨别能力。