ADAPTATION OF THE ATTITUDE TOWARD ENTERPRISE TEST IN THE ITALIAN HIGH SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY CONTEXTS

Paola Spagnoli (), Susana C. Santos and Antonio Caetano
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Paola Spagnoli: University of Campania, “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Caserta, Italy
Susana C. Santos: University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA3Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Business Research Unit (BRU-IUL), Lisboa, Portugal
Antonio Caetano: Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Business Research Unit (BRU-IUL), Lisboa, Portugal

Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), 2017, vol. 22, issue 01, 1-16

Abstract: The development of sound evidence-based entrepreneurial potential assessment tools is particularly recommended to foster entrepreneurship and to evaluate specific entrepreneurial training initiatives in schools and universities. The present study is aimed at examining construct, convergent and discriminant validity of the Attitude Toward Enterprise test (ATE test) in Italy. Configural and measurement invariance were conducted for testing construct validity using Structural Equation Modeling on three groups of students: high school; university undergraduate; and university postgraduate. Correlational and reliability analyses were conducted to test convergent, discriminant and consistency of the scale. Results show that the Italian version of the scale is a valuable tool for research and practical purposes in Italy. Limitations and suggestions for further research are also discussed.

Keywords: Entrepreneurial potential; measurement invariance; Italy; structural equation modeling; attitude assessment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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