Entrepreneurship Education and Entrepreneurial Intentions of College Students: The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and the Moderating Role of Entrepreneurial Competition Experience
This study aims to explore effective ways to improve college students’ entrepreneurial self-efficacy and intentions through entrepreneurship education. The survey used a random sample of 804 college students in Zhejiang Province, China. The results show that: (1) In terms of the characteristics of e...
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| author | Lihao Wu Suo Jiang Xiaomin Wang Linwei Yu Yansu Wang Hui Pan |
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| description | This study aims to explore effective ways to improve college students’ entrepreneurial self-efficacy and intentions through entrepreneurship education. The survey used a random sample of 804 college students in Zhejiang Province, China. The results show that: (1) In terms of the characteristics of entrepreneurial intention, there are significant differences in gender, entrepreneurial experience, entrepreneurial competition experience, and family background of self-employment. (2) There are significant differences in the characteristics of entrepreneurship education in gender, entrepreneurial competition experience, and the family background of self-employment. (3) In the relationship among entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and entrepreneurial intention, entrepreneurship education is significantly and positively related to entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intention. Entrepreneurial self-efficacy is significantly and positively associated with entrepreneurial intention. Entrepreneurial self-efficacy plays a complete mediating role between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention. Entrepreneurial self-efficacy also has a suppressing effect on the relationship between the two. (4) Entrepreneurial competition experience moderates the second half of the mediating effect of entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Finally, the study offers several proposals for the teaching practice of entrepreneurship education. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e4c84fe91ae040fdafcab6c02909df762025-08-19T20:18:51ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782022-01-011210.3389/fpsyg.2021.727826727826Entrepreneurship Education and Entrepreneurial Intentions of College Students: The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and the Moderating Role of Entrepreneurial Competition ExperienceLihao Wu0Suo Jiang1Xiaomin Wang2Linwei Yu3Yansu Wang4Hui Pan5School of Foreign Languages Studies, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, ChinaDepartment of Applied Psychology in School of Psychiatry, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, ChinaSchool of Foreign Languages Studies, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, ChinaSchool of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, ChinaSchool of Foreign Languages Studies, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, ChinaSchool of Foreign Languages Studies, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, ChinaThis study aims to explore effective ways to improve college students’ entrepreneurial self-efficacy and intentions through entrepreneurship education. The survey used a random sample of 804 college students in Zhejiang Province, China. The results show that: (1) In terms of the characteristics of entrepreneurial intention, there are significant differences in gender, entrepreneurial experience, entrepreneurial competition experience, and family background of self-employment. (2) There are significant differences in the characteristics of entrepreneurship education in gender, entrepreneurial competition experience, and the family background of self-employment. (3) In the relationship among entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and entrepreneurial intention, entrepreneurship education is significantly and positively related to entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intention. Entrepreneurial self-efficacy is significantly and positively associated with entrepreneurial intention. Entrepreneurial self-efficacy plays a complete mediating role between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention. Entrepreneurial self-efficacy also has a suppressing effect on the relationship between the two. (4) Entrepreneurial competition experience moderates the second half of the mediating effect of entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Finally, the study offers several proposals for the teaching practice of entrepreneurship education.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.727826/fullentrepreneurship educationentrepreneurial self-efficacyentrepreneurial intentionmediating rolemoderating role |
| spellingShingle | Lihao Wu Suo Jiang Xiaomin Wang Linwei Yu Yansu Wang Hui Pan Entrepreneurship Education and Entrepreneurial Intentions of College Students: The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and the Moderating Role of Entrepreneurial Competition Experience entrepreneurship education entrepreneurial self-efficacy entrepreneurial intention mediating role moderating role |
| title | Entrepreneurship Education and Entrepreneurial Intentions of College Students: The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and the Moderating Role of Entrepreneurial Competition Experience |
| title_full | Entrepreneurship Education and Entrepreneurial Intentions of College Students: The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and the Moderating Role of Entrepreneurial Competition Experience |
| title_fullStr | Entrepreneurship Education and Entrepreneurial Intentions of College Students: The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and the Moderating Role of Entrepreneurial Competition Experience |
| title_full_unstemmed | Entrepreneurship Education and Entrepreneurial Intentions of College Students: The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and the Moderating Role of Entrepreneurial Competition Experience |
| title_short | Entrepreneurship Education and Entrepreneurial Intentions of College Students: The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and the Moderating Role of Entrepreneurial Competition Experience |
| title_sort | entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intentions of college students the mediating role of entrepreneurial self efficacy and the moderating role of entrepreneurial competition experience |
| topic | entrepreneurship education entrepreneurial self-efficacy entrepreneurial intention mediating role moderating role |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.727826/full |
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