scholarly journals Entrepreneurial Education and Self-employment: Does Entrepreneurial Self-efficacy Matter?

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-30
Author(s):  
Moses Kisubi ◽  
Michael Korir ◽  
Ronald Bonuke

Purpose – The study sought to determine the mediating role of entrepreneurial self-efficacy in the relationship between entrepreneurship education and self-employment intentions. Design – A cross-sectional and explanatory survey approach was employed using a systematic sampling technique. Data were collected from a sample of 458 undergraduate finalists from two Ugandan universities. Results – Results of the study indicate that two predictors significantly influence self-employment intentions. Results also suggest that entrepreneurial self-efficacy partially mediates the relationship between entrepreneurship education and self-employment intentions. Implications – Curriculum developers should develop entrepreneurship curriculum content geared towards stimulation of self-employment intentions among learners via entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Second, educational and economic policymakers should design policies and programs like startup capital to enable graduates to realize their self-employment intentions. Originality/value – The study provides initial evidence on the mediating effect of entrepreneurial self-efficacy between entrepreneurship education and self-employment intentions.

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lihao Wu ◽  
Suo Jiang ◽  
Xiaomin Wang ◽  
Linwei Yu ◽  
Yansu Wang ◽  
...  

This study aims to explore effective ways to improve college students’ entrepreneurial self-efficacy and intentions through entrepreneurship education. The survey used a random sample of 804 college students in Zhejiang Province, China. The results show that: (1) In terms of the characteristics of entrepreneurial intention, there are significant differences in gender, entrepreneurial experience, entrepreneurial competition experience, and family background of self-employment. (2) There are significant differences in the characteristics of entrepreneurship education in gender, entrepreneurial competition experience, and the family background of self-employment. (3) In the relationship among entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and entrepreneurial intention, entrepreneurship education is significantly and positively related to entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intention. Entrepreneurial self-efficacy is significantly and positively associated with entrepreneurial intention. Entrepreneurial self-efficacy plays a complete mediating role between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention. Entrepreneurial self-efficacy also has a suppressing effect on the relationship between the two. (4) Entrepreneurial competition experience moderates the second half of the mediating effect of entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Finally, the study offers several proposals for the teaching practice of entrepreneurship education.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-58
Author(s):  
Moses Kisame Kisubi

Purpose – the study aimed at determining the interactive effect of entrepreneurial attitude and self-efficacy on students’ self-employment intentions. Design/ methodology – to attain the purpose of the study, cross-sectional and explanatory research designs were employed. Systematic sampling technique was utilized to collect data from a sample of 458 undergraduate finalists from Makerere and Kyambogo Universities in Uganda. Data were analyzed using Hayes (2018) Process macro version 3.2 (Model 1) with the help of SPSS version 23 Results – the study indicates that entrepreneurial attitude and self-efficacy significantly and positively influence self-employment intentions. Further, a negative and significant conditional effect of entrepreneurial self-efficacy in the relationship between entrepreneurial attitude and self-employment intentions was established. Implications – theoretically, the study contributes to the extant literature by providing new insights on the interactive effect of entrepreneurial attitude and self-efficacy on students’ self-employment intentions. We also provide practical implications to educators, curriculum developers, and university management in developing appropriate training tools for students driven by first ascertaining their levels of self-efficacy. Originality/value – The study provides new insights on the conditional effect of entrepreneurial self-efficacy in the relationship between entrepreneurial attitude and self-employment intentions.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huiping Sun ◽  
Lin Qian ◽  
Mengxin Xue ◽  
Ting Zhou ◽  
Jiling Qu ◽  
...  

BACKGROUND With the popularization of the Internet, it has become possible to widely disseminate health information via social media. Medical staff’s health communication through social media can improve the public’s health literacy, and improving the intention of health communication among nursing undergraduates is of great significance for them to actively carry out health communication after entering clinical practice. OBJECTIVE To explore the relationship among eHealth literacy, social media self-efficacy, and health communication intention and to determine the mediating role of social media self-efficacy in the relationship between eHealth literacy and health communication intention. METHODS A cross-sectional descriptive correlation design was used in this study.Stratified cluster sampling was used to select 958 nursing students from four nursing colleges in Jiangsu Province, China, from June to July 2021.Data were collected using the eHealth Literacy Scale, the Social Media Self-efficacy Scale, and the Health Communication Intention Questionnaire. Sociodemographic data were also collected. Correlation analysis and regression analysis were used to determine the relationship between eHealth literacy, social media self-efficacy, and health communication intention. RESULTS Health communication intention is positively correlated with eHealth literacy and social media self-efficacy. eHealth literacy directly affects the intention of health communication significantly (p < 0.001), and social media self-efficacy played a mediating role in the influence of eHealth literacy on health communication intention (the mediating effect accounted for 37.2% of the total effect). CONCLUSIONS Improving the eHealth literacy of nursing undergraduates can directly affect or promote health communication intention and can also indirectly improve health communication intention through improving social media self-efficacy. In view of these results, targeted educational programs must be developed to improve eHealth literacy and social media self-efficacy among nursing undergraduates, thereby promoting their health information transmission.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (03) ◽  
pp. 153-158
Author(s):  
Dwi Arini ◽  
Evin Novianti

Background: Adolescents face the problem of bullying, they need social support from those around them to have confidence in their abilities. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between self-efficacy and social support with bullying in adolescents at Junior High School 2 Sepatan, Tangerang Regency. Methods: The research design is cross-sectional using the spearman correlation test to analyze the relationship between variables. The sampling technique was simple random sampling with 127 respondents. The instrument uses a self-efficacy questionnaire, Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, and The revised Olweus Bully or Victim Questionnaire. Results: There is a significant relationship between self-efficacy and bullying (p-value 0.031) and there is a significant relationship between social support and bullying (p-value 0.001). Conclusion: There is a relationship between self-efficacy and social support for victims of bullying in adolescents. This study is also useful for parents that teenagers need support in getting through the effects of bullying.


2021 ◽  
pp. 37-48
Author(s):  
Cernas-Ortiz Cernas-Ortiz ◽  
Lau Wai-Kwan

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between social connectedness outside of work and job satisfaction in Mexican teleworkers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research method was correlational, non-experimental, and cross-sectional. Employing an online, self-administered survey, the data were collected in a non-probabilistic sample of 214 individuals. The results suggest that the relationship between social connectedness outside of work and job satisfaction is positive and mediated by positive affective well-being. The mediating effect of positive affective well-being is not moderated by optimistic attributional style. Social connectedness outside of work is important to keep job satisfaction high. Therefore, organizations should facilitate a frequent interaction of their teleworkers with others outside the work domain.


2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Kashif Abrar

Attracting and retaining customers is considered essential for success of any business entity operating all across the globe. Therefore, customer needs and demands need to be emphasized in order to earn a profitable market share. The present study has focused on the independent role of customerization and customer engagement with the mediating effect of brand performance (brand awareness, brand image and brand satisfaction) on brand love. The study has been conducted in a cross-sectional and causal manner. Data was collected through convenience sampling technique from 230 respondents, out of which 183 questionnaires were fully attempted, with a response rate of 79. 5%. Responses were analyzed through frequency distribution, correlation, simple linear regression and structural equational modelling analysis. The findings of the study have indicated positively significant relationships of customerization and customer engagement with brand performance and brand love.


Author(s):  
Trupti Uke ◽  
Jaya Gawai ◽  
Pooja Kasturkar

Background: Many people experience and deal with anxiety very efficiently at home, work place and every walk of their life. The beneficial outcomes of high level of anxiety are usually the effects and achievements you and others experience. On the outward, you should appear to be very effective in proper work and routinely lifestyle and this may be objectively perfect if you judge yourself on what you are accomplishing. Aim: The aim is to assess the relationship between personality traits (neuroticism and extraversion and self-efficacy) with anxiety and depression among aging population. Objectives: 1. To assess the relationship between personality traits of neuroticism with anxiety among aging population. 2. To assess the relationship between personality traits of neuroticism with depression among aging population. 3. To assess the relationship between personality traits of extraversion with anxiety among aging population. 4. To assess the relationship between personality traits of extraversion with depression among aging population.5. To assess the relationship between personality traits self-efficacy with anxiety among aging population.6. To assess the relationship between personality traits self-efficacy with depression among aging population.7.To compare the relationship between personality traits (neuroticism, extraversion and self-efficacy) with anxiety and depression among aging population.8.To correlate relationship between personality traits (neuroticism, extraversion and self-efficacy) with anxiety and depression among aging population.9.To associate score of personality traits (neuroticism extraversion and self-efficacy) with their selected demographic variables. Methodology: The research design is cross-sectional study, and participants are, the aging populations. Sampling technique will be non-probability convenience sampling. Data will be obtained from the participants with the use of standardized scale personality five big inventory scale, self-efficacy scale, Hamilton-depression and Hamilton anxiety scale. Results: There may be relationships between neuroticism, extraversion and self-efficacy with anxiety and depression among aging population and this relationship will be tested with demographic variables by regression analysis. Conclusion: Findings will be drawn from the statistical analysis.


Author(s):  
Bernadette Kun ◽  
Róbert Urbán ◽  
Beáta Bőthe ◽  
Mark D. Griffiths ◽  
Zsolt Demetrovics ◽  
...  

Background: Empirical evidence suggests that low self-esteem and high perfectionism are significant personality correlates of work addiction, but the mechanisms underlying these relationships are still unclear. Consequently, exploring cognitive mechanisms will help to better understand work addiction. For instance, rumination is one of the under-researched topics in work addiction, although it may explain specific thinking processes of work-addicted individuals. The purpose of the study was to test the mediating role of maladaptive rumination (i.e., brooding) in the relationship between personality and addiction. Methods: In a largescale cross-sectional, unrepresentative, online study, 4340 adults with a current job participated. The following psychometric instruments were used: Work Addiction Risk Test Revised, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale, and Ruminative Response Scale. Results: It was found that self-oriented perfectionism, socially prescribed perfectionism, and self-esteem had both direct and indirect relationships with work addiction via the mediating effect of maladaptive rumination. The two paths involving brooding explained 44% of the direct relationship. Conclusions: The study demonstrated that brooding type of rumination as a putatively maladaptive strategy explains why individuals characterized by low self-esteem and high perfectionism may have a higher risk of work addiction. The results suggest that cognitive-affective mechanisms in work addiction are similar to those found in other addictive disorders.


Author(s):  
Dorcas Achieng Kerre

Credit card use has gained popularity throughout the world.  Banks introduce the credit card service as a way of improving their revenue streams. However, in Kenya, the rate of growth in usage has rather been slow. This research surveyed credit card holders in Nairobi, Kenya with a view to investigate the effect of marketing practices on credit usage and whether consumer attitudes had a mediating effect between the two factors.   A cross-sectional survey was conducted by administering a structured questionnaire to 380 respondents. The study established that marketing practices affect credit card usage and that consumer attitudes did not significantly mediate the relationship between marketing practices and credit card usage. This paper makes a valuable contribution to managerial practice by showing how the elements of the extended marketing mix affect credit card usage. Thus it serves to inform the implementation of marketing strategy in banks by guiding on which aspects of marketing should be emphasised so as to increase credit card usage.


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