Orientacja życiowa i typ partycypacji społecznej a gotowość do aktywności przedsiębiorczej w okresie wschodzącej dorosłości

The article presents research on the relationship between life orientation and types of social participation of young people in emerging adulthood with declared readiness to entrepreneurial activity. The results indicated a greater willingness to entrepreneurship of men rather than women and of young people coming from families where one parent realizes the type of entrepreneurial career. Also, education in entrepreneurship proved to be an important motivating factor to take this form of professional activity in the future. In the surveyed group of people, the level of transitive orientation was significantly higher than the level of moratorium orientation. Transitive orientation proved to be higher among respondents whose parents work as entrepreneurs. The obtained results confirmed significant, but weak relationship between transitive orientation and declared readiness to entrepreneurship. The greatest willingness to entrepreneurship declare people whose type of social participation is classified as assimilative, while the lowest – those with integrative type.