The influence of self-efficacy and socio-demographic factors on the entrepreneurial intentions of selected Youth Corp members in Lagos, Nigeria

Moa-Liberty Alausa Waheed (), Tinuola Odunuga Lateefat () and Tunde Arogundade Odunayo ()
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Tinuola Odunuga Lateefat: Lagos State University, Department of Psychology, Ojo, Lagos, Nigeria
Tunde Arogundade Odunayo: Redeemers University, Department of Behavioural Studies, Ede, Osun State, Nigeria

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, 2016, vol. 34, issue 34, 63-71

Abstract: This study examines the influence of self-efficacy and socio-demographic factors on the entrepreneurial intentions of selected Youth Corp members. The study adopted a cross-sectional survey design and a sample size of 300 National Youth Service Corp members were randomly selected in the five divisions of Lagos State with ages ranging from 18 to 30. Three hypotheses were tested using multiple regression and t-tests. The results show that there is a significant joint influence of sex, age, ethnicity and self-efficacy on entrepreneurial intentions (r2 = 0.90; P

Keywords: self-efficacy; socio-demographic factors; entrepreneurial intentions; Youth Corps (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1515/bog-2016-0035

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