Zhao Jianbo, Wei Guojiang, Chen Kou-Hsiung, Yien Jui-Mei
Institute of Industrial Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China.
School of Economics, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China.
Front Psychol. 2020 Jan 23;10:2984. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02984. eCollection 2019.
The aim of this study was to identify the influences of psychological capital (PC) on students' entrepreneurial intention (EI) in China's universities. The mediating effects of Entrepreneurial Capitals were also examined. Based on the analysis of the traditional capital and PC, the paper proposes that traditional capital is the direct factor to drive the behavior of entrepreneurship, while psychological factors do not directly affect EI, but improve EI by influencing traditional capital. A total of 1914 responses from universities in southeast China were analyzed using the structural equation modeling (SEM) approach to test study hypotheses. Results show that PC has a significant indirect impact on students' EI only through traditional financial, human, and social capital (SC). These results support the mediating role of the traditional entrepreneurial capitals in explaining the relationship between PC and EI. Additionally, the impact of SC on EI is higher than that of financial and human capital (HC). Finally, research limitations and implications are discussed and future research directions are suggested.
本研究旨在确定心理资本（PC）对中国大学生创业意向（EI）的影响。同时也考察了创业资本的中介作用。在对传统资本和心理资本进行分析的基础上，本文提出传统资本是驱动创业行为的直接因素，而心理因素并不直接影响创业意向，而是通过影响传统资本来提高创业意向。使用结构方程模型（SEM）方法对来自中国东南部高校的1914份问卷进行分析，以检验研究假设。结果表明，心理资本仅通过传统的金融、人力和社会资本（SC）对学生的创业意向产生显著的间接影响。这些结果支持了传统创业资本在解释心理资本与创业意向之间关系时的中介作用。此外，社会资本对创业意向的影响高于金融资本和人力资本（HC）。最后，讨论了研究的局限性和意义，并提出了未来的研究方向。
