The Socio-educational, Psychological and Family-Related Antecedents of Entrepreneurial Intentions among Spanish Youth

M. Camino Escolar-Llamazares, Isabel Luis-Rico, Tamara de la Torre-Cruz, Álvaro Herrero, Alfredo Jiménez, Carmen Palmero-Cámara and Alfredo Jiménez-Eguizábal
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M. Camino Escolar-Llamazares: Departamento de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Burgos, 09001 Burgos, Spain
Isabel Luis-Rico: Departamento de Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de Burgos, 09001 Burgos, Spain
Tamara de la Torre-Cruz: Departamento de Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de Burgos, 09001 Burgos, Spain
Álvaro Herrero: Grupo de Inteligencia Computacional Aplicada (GICAP), Departamento de Ingeniería Civil, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad de Burgos, 09006 Burgos, Spain
Alfredo Jiménez: Department of Management, KEDGE Business School, 33400 Talence, France
Carmen Palmero-Cámara: Departamento de Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de Burgos, 09001 Burgos, Spain
Alfredo Jiménez-Eguizábal: Departamento de Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de Burgos, 09001 Burgos, Spain

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 5, 1-21

Abstract: Despite the abundant scientific literature on entrepreneurship, there is still only limited information on young students’ entrepreneurial intentions. The reasons for this, may be generally found in the different conceptual approaches to entrepreneurial intention, and particularly in the variables that regulate and act as antecedents to such intentions. This bias has generated different lines of investigation into the factors relating to entrepreneurial intention among students. One line of investigation is centered on the variables that influence entrepreneurial intention, in particular, relational, educational, and psychological variables, and another is centered on the antecedents of entrepreneurial intention, amongst which is entrepreneurial interest. In this paper, we seek to analyze the relationship between the entrepreneurial interest of Spanish youth and a set of socio-educational, psychological, and health-related variables using principal component analysis. A previously validated ad hoc questionnaire was administered to 1764 students (15–18 years old). Notably, few Spanish youth expressed significantly high entrepreneurial interest; those who did were mostly men with a family tradition of entrepreneurial parents, who held high perceptions of their health and quality of life, and considered it important in business to detect opportunities beforehand and to create employment. Their principal motives were to improve their professional development, to put their ideas into practice, and to achieve economic independence. This paper proposes the early detection of entrepreneurial interests in young people in order to reinforce these interests as potential long-term initiatives.

Keywords: youth; secondary education; entrepreneurial intention; entrepreneurial interest; psychological variables (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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