entrepreneurs may also be driven to entrepreneurship by past experiences. if they have faced multiple work stoppages or have been unemployed in the past, the probability of them becoming an entrepreneur increases per cattell's personality framework, both personality traits and attitudes are thoroughly investigated by psychologists. however, in case of entrepreneurship research these notions are employed by academics too, but vaguely. according to cattell, personality is a system that is related to the environment and further adds that the system seeks explanation to the complex transactions conducted by both—traits and attitudes. this is because both of them bring about change and growth in a person. personality is that which informs what an individual will do when faced with a given situation. a person's response is triggered by his/her personality and the situation that is faced.