| Literature DB >> 35360614 |
Qu Shaowei1, Li Tianhua2, Zhang Miao3.
Abstract
College students have gradually become the main force of entrepreneurship in mass entrepreneurship and innovation. However, their entrepreneurial performance was not as good as expected. We have carried out research to analyze the predictive factors of entrepreneurial performance of college students and put forward targeted suggestions, hoping to be helpful to improve their entrepreneurial performance of them. Based on questionnaire data obtained from 2,097 college student entrepreneurs, this study uses the structural equation model to analyze the predictive factors of the entrepreneurial performance of college students. The survey results of the questionnaire show that both personal and behavioral factors influence the entrepreneurial performance of college students. In this study, personal factors in this study mainly include entrepreneurial willingness, personality, and ability of entrepreneurs. Behavioral factors mainly refer to the positive behaviors of entrepreneurs that can affect entrepreneurial performance.Entities:
Keywords: college entrepreneurs; entrepreneurial performance; entrepreneur’s personality; predictive factors; structural equation model
Year: 2022 PMID: 35360614 PMCID: PMC8963528 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.814759
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Front Psychol ISSN: 1664-1078
Basic descriptive statistics of the questionnaire.
| Basic information of college entrepreneurs | Frequency | Percentage | |
| Gender | Male | 1706 | 81.4% |
| Female | 391 | 18.6% | |
| School | Research university | 749 | 35.7% |
| General colleges | 1348 | 64.3% | |
| Entrepreneurial stage | Early stage | 699 | 33.3% |
| Growth stage | 1290 | 61.5% | |
| Expansion stage | 86 | 4.1% | |
| Mature stage | 22 | 1.0% | |
Reliability test results.
| Variable | Item | Cronbach’s alpha | Cronbach’s alpha of item deleted |
| Personal personality traits | Perseverance | 0.884 | 0.895 |
| Social responsibility | 0.894 | ||
| Honesty | 0.894 | ||
| Tolerance | 0.893 | ||
| Leadership charm | 0.892 | ||
| Mutual benefit | 0.892 | ||
| Confident | 0.894 | ||
| Personal entrepreneurial ability | Creativity | 0.882 | 0.896 |
| Management ability | 0.892 | ||
| Foreign cooperation ability | 0.893 | ||
| Market development ability | 0.893 | ||
| Product development ability | 0.892 | ||
| Opportunity capture behavior | Dare to take risks | 0.763 | 0.895 |
| Funding status | 0.896 | ||
| Risk control status | 0.893 | ||
| Bold decision behavior | Opportunity recognition status | 0.750 | 0.894 |
| Team formation status | 0.894 | ||
| Project learning status | 0.894 | ||
| Entrepreneurship project is fully feasible | 0.897 | ||
| Dare to take responsibility | 0.895 | ||
| Personal entrepreneurial willingness | Entrepreneurship is an effective means to prove one’s own ability | 0.676 | 0.903 |
| Entrepreneurship can help one realize their self-worth | 0.899 | ||
| Have great entrepreneurial enthusiasm | 0.898 | ||
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| Total | 0.900 | ||
Validity test results.
| Category | KMO value | Bartlett test of Sphericity | ||
| Chi-square test | Degree of freedom | Significance | ||
| Personal personality traits | 0.886 | 8501.774 | 21 | 0 |
| Personal entrepreneurial ability | 0.854 | 5364.348 | 10 | 0 |
| Opportunity capture behavior | 0.673 | 1706.700 | 3 | 0 |
| Bold decision behavior | 0.819 | 3082.654 | 10 | 0 |
| Personal entrepreneurial willingness | 0.596 | 1145.621 | 3 | 0 |
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| Total | 0.865 | 31719.807 | 275 | 0 |
Research hypotheses testing.
| Path | Standardized path coefficient | S.E. |
| Correspondence hypothesis | Significance | |
| Personal entrepreneurial willingness → The entrepreneurial performance of college students | −0.027 | 0.157 | −0.695 | 0.487 | H1 | Insignificant |
| Personal entrepreneurial ability → The entrepreneurial performance of college students | 0.868 | 0.547 | 5.822 | 0.000 | H2 | Significant |
| Personal personality traits → The entrepreneurial performance of college students | 0.288 | 0.315 | 3.120 | 0.002 | H3 | Significant |
| The behavior of capturing opportunities → The entrepreneurial performance of college students | 0.357 | 0.316 | 3.051 | 0.002 | H4 | Significant |
| Bold decision-making behavior → The entrepreneurial performance of college students | 0.312 | 0.383 | 3.218 | 0.001 | H5 | Significant |
FIGURE 1Structural equation model.