Data from Zimbabwean College Students on the Measurement Invariance of the Entrepreneurship Goal and Implementation Intentions Scales

Takawira Munyaradzi Ndofirepi ()
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Takawira Munyaradzi Ndofirepi: Faculty of Management Sciences, Central University of Technology, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa

Data, 2022, vol. 7, issue 12, 1-6

Abstract: This article analyses primary data on the entrepreneurship intentions of selected Zimbabwean college students. The goal of this study was to examine the measurement invariance of the entrepreneurship goal and implementation intention scales across gender groups in a higher education setting. Entrepreneurship goal intentions (EGI) and entrepreneurship implementation intentions (EII) are examined as separate but related constructs. To address the research goal, a positivist philosophy and quantitative research approach were used. A cross-sectional survey was used to collect data from a convenient sample of 262 college students in Zimbabwe. A researcher-administered questionnaire, written in English, was distributed to the respondents and collected after completion. Multi-group confirmatory analysis was performed on the dataset using JASP computer software. The results obtained confirmed all four levels of measurement invariance, namely configural, metric, scalar, and strict invariance. The pattern of the results validates the consistency of the measurement properties of the entrepreneurial intention instruments designed in developed countries across different contexts of use. Researchers, entrepreneurship educators, and policymakers in Zimbabwe can use the results of this analysis to quantify potential entrepreneurs among young adults and to come up with intervention measures to support future entrepreneurship.

Keywords: entrepreneurial intentions; measurement invariance; multigroup analysis; gender; Zimbabwe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C8 C80 C81 C82 C83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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