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Impact of entrepreneurial self-efficacy on the intention to create a new business: a cross-sectional study in Portuguese higher education students
| dc.contributor.author | Ribeiro, Maria Isabel | |
| dc.contributor.author | Fernandes, António | |
| dc.contributor.author | Fernandes, António Pedro | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-03-13T12:02:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-03-13T12:02:08Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Individuals with a higher level of self-efficacy have more entrepreneurial intention to settle on their own, creating and managing their own career. This study aimed to know the level of entrepreneurial selfefficacy of higher education students and to verify the impact of entrepreneurial self-efficacy on entrepreneurial intention or creation of new businesses. To achieve these objectives, a cross-sectional, quantitative and analytical study was carried out based on a probabilistic sample of 2107 students from a rtuguese higher education institution located in the Northern Interior of Portugal. The margin of error was 1.84%. To collect the data, a questionnaire was directly applied to the students, in the classroom in the presence of the teacher, from October 2018 to January 2019. Students’ participation was voluntary and the anonymity and data confidentiality were guaranteed to all participants. The questionnaire had three sections. The first section included sociodemographic variables (gender, age and nationality) and academic variables (scientific area of the course, course degree, year attended, attendance mode and course with or without integrated internship). The second section included the entrepreneurial selfefficacy scale [1]. This scale consists of 23 items related to the individuals' ability to perform tasks, and the answers were coded by a Likert scale ranging from 1 (totally incapable) to 7 (fully capable). Finally, the third section comprised a scale consisting of four items that aimed to evaluate the entrepreneurial intention of the students [2]. The answers were coded using a Likert scale ranging from 1 (a little) to 7 (a lot). A linear regression model was estimated in order to verify if Entrepreneurial self-efficacy (X) is a predictor of Entrepreneurial intention (Y). Students were aged between 17 and 52 years old and attended a degree course within four different scientific areas, existent in the institution, namely Education (60.5%), Technologies and Management (21.2%), Agriculture (6.3%) and Health (12.0%). The majority was female (54.0%), Portuguese (82.9%) and attended a graduation degree (88.8%) in an ordinary full-time attendance mode (96.4%). The students registered a moderate level of entrepreneurial self-efficacy. In fact, it was observed that 20.4% of the students registered a high level of entrepreneurial self-efficacy; 64.5% showed a moderate level, and, the remaining 15.1% revealed a low level of entrepreneurial self-efficacy. The estimated regression model was statistically significant. It was found that Entrepreneurial self-efficacy is a predictor of Entrepreneurial intention (creation of new businesses). Moreover, the value of Adjusted R2 shows that this predictor account for 43.9% of Entrepreneurial intention. Entrepreneurial self-efficacy contributes to the generation of ideas and the creation of new businesses with success. Therefore, higher education institutions should be able to improve students’ entrepreneurial skills. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The authors are grateful to the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, Portugal) and the ERDF under the program PT2020 for financial support to CIMO (UID/AGR/00690/2019) | pt_PT |
| dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.citation | Ribeiro, Maria Isabel; Fernandes, António; Fernandes, António Pedro (2020). Impact of entrepreneurial self-efficacy on the intention to create a new business: a cross-sectional study in Portuguese higher education students. In 14th International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED). p. 8418-8424. ISBN 978-84-09-17939-8 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-84-09-17939-8 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10198/20974 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt_PT |
| dc.publisher | IATED | pt_PT |
| dc.relation | Mountain Research Centre | |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Entrepreneurial self-efficacy | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Businesses | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Students | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Higher education | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Professional career | pt_PT |
| dc.title | Impact of entrepreneurial self-efficacy on the intention to create a new business: a cross-sectional study in Portuguese higher education students | pt_PT |
| dc.type | conference paper | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.awardTitle | Mountain Research Centre | |
| oaire.awardURI | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UID%2FAGR%2F00690%2F2019/PT | |
| oaire.citation.conferencePlace | Valencia | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 8424 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 8418 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.title | INTED2020 Proceedings | pt_PT |
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| person.familyName | Ribeiro | |
| person.familyName | Fernandes | |
| person.givenName | Maria Isabel | |
| person.givenName | António | |
| person.identifier | 2474707 | |
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| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-5425-006X | |
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| project.funder.identifier | http://doi.org/10.13039/501100001871 | |
| project.funder.name | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia | |
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