Baluku Martin Mabunda, Kikooma Julius Fred, Otto Kathleen, König Cornelius J, Bajwa Nida Ul Habib
Department of Educational, Social, and Organizational Psychology, School of Psychology, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
Department of Work and Organizational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
Front Psychol. 2020 Dec 8;11:546745. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.546745. eCollection 2020.
Recent research illustrates substantial gaps between entrepreneurial intentions and behavior. This is a challenge for entrepreneurship promotion interventions that have primarily focused on stimulating entrepreneurial intentions. However, extant literature suggests that implementation intentions enhance the likelihood of acting congruently to the behavioral intention. Furthermore, theory also suggests the condition effects of situations and the perceived control over them. We therefore hypothesized that implementation intentions mediate the relationship between entrepreneurial intention and action, while perceived family support moderates the movement from implementation intention to entrepreneurial action. Using two-wave survey data from a sample of students at an African university, we measured two psychological attributes (proactive personality and psychological capital) as important precursors of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial intentions present before undertaking an innovations and entrepreneurship course. Implementation intentions regarding entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial actions, and perceived parental support for entrepreneurial activities were also measured 2 weeks after completion of the course. Our results demonstrate support for the proposed moderated double mediation model in which the effects of the two psychological attributes on entrepreneurial actions are explained entrepreneurial intentions and implementation intentions. We further find moderation effects of perceived family support indicating that implementation intentions more likely predicted entrepreneurial actions in cases of higher family support.
近期研究表明,创业意图与行为之间存在显著差距。这对主要侧重于激发创业意图的创业促进干预措施构成了挑战。然而,现有文献表明,实施意图会增加与行为意图一致行动的可能性。此外,理论还表明了情境的条件效应以及对情境的感知控制。因此,我们假设实施意图在创业意图与行动之间起中介作用,而感知到的家庭支持会调节从实施意图到创业行动的转变。我们使用来自一所非洲大学学生样本的两波调查数据,测量了两种心理特质(积极主动人格和心理资本),它们是创业的重要先兆以及在参加创新创业课程之前就存在的创业意图。在课程结束两周后,还测量了关于创业的实施意图、创业行动以及感知到的父母对创业活动的支持。我们的结果支持了所提出的有调节的双重中介模型,其中两种心理特质对创业行动的影响通过创业意图和实施意图来解释。我们还进一步发现了感知到的家庭支持的调节效应,表明在家庭支持较高的情况下,实施意图更有可能预测创业行动。