An empirical investigation on the relationship between individual traits and entrepreneurial business intentions: measuring a mediation effect of entrepreneurial self-efficacy through partial least squares structural equation modeling

Cai Li (), Majid Murad (), Hassnain Javed (), Saba Fazal Firdousi () and Sheikh Farhan Ashraf ()
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Cai Li: Jiangsu University
Majid Murad: Jiangsu University
Hassnain Javed: Jiangsu University
Saba Fazal Firdousi: Jiangsu University
Sheikh Farhan Ashraf: Jiangsu University

Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research, 2021, vol. 11, issue 1, 533-549

Abstract: Abstract Human psychology and the embryological cycle are synonymous with business start-ups and its later phases and stages. To explore the linkage between human and business, this paper examines the empirical investigation on the relationship between individual traits and entrepreneurial business intentions with the mediation effect of entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Drawing on a field survey of 259 international students from five Jiangsu province universities of China, using convenience sampling technique, this study provides evidence for the argument that entrepreneurial education, emotional intelligence, need for cognition, proactive personality, and rebelliousness has a positive impact on entrepreneurial self-efficacy expect risk-taking propensity has negative and insignificant impact on entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Moreover, this study found that entrepreneurial education, emotional intelligence, the need for cognition, and rebelliousness has a positive impact on entrepreneurial business intentions expect proactive personality and risk-taking propensity has a negative and insignificant impact on entrepreneurial business intentions. Furthermore, this study provides evidence that entrepreneurial self-efficacy has a mediation effect between entrepreneurial educations, emotional intelligence, the need for cognition, proactive personality, rebelliousness, and entrepreneurial business intentions. Entrepreneurial self-efficacy has no mediation effect between risk-taking propensity and entrepreneurial business intentions. The findings shed light on the mechanism that individual traits contribute an immense role to the literature on the key components of the entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial business intentions among students.

Keywords: Entrepreneurial education; Emotional intelligence; Need for cognition; Proactive personality; Rebelliousness; Risk-taking propensity; Entrepreneurial self-efficacy; Entrepreneurial business intentions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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