The Contribution of Self-Efficacy to the Relationship between Personality Traits and Entrepreneurial Intention

Autor/inn/en	Wang, Jiun-Hao; Chang, Chi-Cheng; Yao, Shu-Nung; Liang, Chaoyun
Titel	The Contribution of Self-Efficacy to the Relationship between Personality Traits and Entrepreneurial Intention
Quelle	In: Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 72 (2016) 2, S.209-224 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-1560
DOI	10.1007/s10734-015-9946-y
Schlagwörter	Self Efficacy; Personality Traits; Entrepreneurship; Economic Development; Rural Areas; Agricultural Education; Factor Structure; Agricultural Occupations; Intention; Emotional Response; Negative Attitudes; Foreign Countries + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Unternehmungsgeist; Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Agriculture; Education; Landwirtschaftliche Ausbildung; Landwirtschaft; Ausbildung; Faktorenstruktur; Occupation; Beruf; Landwirtschaftlicher Beruf; Emotionales Verhalten; Negative Fixierung; Ausland
Abstract	Promoting farming work is crucial for sustainable economic development in Asian-Pacific rural areas. How to promote rural entrepreneurship has recently become a critical issue in agricultural education. This article reports the results of two subsequent studies. The first study confirmed the factor structures of the five-factor model of personality, the general self-efficacy scale, and the entrepreneurial intention scale. The second study tested the mediating effect of self-efficacy on the relationship between personality traits and entrepreneurial intention among agricultural students. The results indicate that entrepreneurial intention comprises two dimensions: conviction and preparation. Accordingly, the mediation model of self-efficacy is partially supported. Extraversion, openness, conscientiousness, and agreeableness reliably predict both conviction and preparation, whereas neuroticism does not. In addition to the indirect effects, both openness and negative emotion exert a direct effect on entrepreneurial intention in agricultural students. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01