PP. 09 – 26 EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BUSINESS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 9 European Journal of Business and Social Sciences, Vol. 1, No. 6, pp 09-26, October 2012. URL: http:/ / www.ejbss.com/ r ecent.aspx ISSN: 2235 -767X GENDER-ROLE ORI ENTATION AND SELF EFFICACY AS CORRELATES OF ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION Dr. Barnabas E. Nwankwo Depar tment of Psychology, Car itas Uni ver sity, Amor ji-Ni ke, Enugu, Niger ia E-mail: banniewankwo@yahoo.com +2348023611991 Gabriel C. Kanu Department of Psychology, Caritas University, Amorji-Nike, Enugu, Nigeria Dr . Mary I. Marire Department of Business Administration, Enugu State Univer si ty of Science and Technology (ESUT), Enugu, Niger ia; Prof. Shyngle K. Balogun Department of Psychology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. Anayo C. Uhiara Depar tment of Social Sciences, Federal Polytechnic Owerri, Owerri, Nigeria ABSTRACT he study investigated gender-role orientation and self-efficacy as correlates of entrepreneurial intentions. A total of 350 participated in the study, comprising of two hundred and six male and one hundred and forty-four female students of Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enugu, Nigeria. Participants responded to gender-role inventory, self efficacy scale and eentrepreneurial intention questionnaire. It was hypothesised that gender-role orientation and self efficacy will not be significantly related to entrepreneurial intention. One- way analysis of variance and Pearson correlation statistics were used to analysis the data. The results showed that significant difference existed among the gender-role orientation dimensions F(350)=19.42, P<.01, and self efficacy relates significantly with entrepreneurial intentions, r(350)=0.34,P<.01.The implications of the study were discussed and suggestions provided for further studies. Keywords: Self efficacy, gender-role orientation, entrepreneurial intention. T