Emotional competencies and cognitive antecedents in shaping student’s entrepreneurial intention: the moderating role of entrepreneurship education

Virginia Fernández-Pérez (), Ana Montes-Merino (), Lázaro Rodríguez-Ariza and Patricia Esther Alonso Galicia ()
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Virginia Fernández-Pérez: Universidad de Granada
Ana Montes-Merino: Universidad de Jaén
Patricia Esther Alonso Galicia: Campus Querétaro

International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 2019, vol. 15, issue 1, No 15, 305 pages

Abstract: Abstract This paper focuses on the analytic thinking of emotional competencies and their influence, in particular, in shaping university students’ entrepreneurial intentions, backed by an extended model of Ajzen’s Theory of Planned Behaviour, and analyses the moderating role of entrepreneurial education among the variables under study. The results, derived from an ex-ante and ex-post questionnaire addressed to Spanish university students engaged in a compulsory entrepreneurship course, were subjected to structural equation modelling analysis. Our findings show that entrepreneurship by university students is favoured by the development of their emotional competencies, due to the direct influence of the latter in shaping entrepreneurial intention and its positive impact on their cognitive antecedents (entrepreneurial attitudes and perceived self-efficacy), and suggest that students with a higher degree of emotional competencies who receive entrepreneurship education will have a more positive attitude towards entrepreneurship and will perceive themselves more capable of becoming entrepreneurs. The primary contribution of this paper is to spotlight the use of emotional competencies in encouraging entrepreneurship, and to heighten awareness of the positive effect of education on emotionally-competent students, a factor that should be taken into account to improve entrepreneurship education programmes.

Keywords: Emotional competencies; Entrepreneurial intentions; Attitude self-efficacy; Entrepreneurship education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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