Volume 12 Article informations The Effect of self-esteem, entrepreneurship education, and entrepreneurial tradition of the family on the entrepreneurial intention among students Rabeh Abbassi, Neila Sta Abstract The main purpose of this study is to determine the impact of self-esteem and two contextual factors, namely family and entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intention of students. A conceptual model integrating the selected variables and the causal links is developed and validated on the basis of an empirical study involving 200 students both in the English business branch and the English fundamental branch. The collected data are processed using the method of multiple linear regressions. The results show that self-esteem, education and the family's entrepreneurial tradition have positive and significant effects on the entrepreneurial intention of the students. Key words: Entrepreneurial intention, self-esteem, entrepreneurship education, family's entrepreneurial tradition, personality trait, exploratory analysis, linear regressions methods