Othman Nor Hafiza, Othman Norasmah, Juhdi Noor Hasni
Faculty of Entrepreneurship and Business, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Kelantan, Malaysia.
Faculty of Education, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia.
Front Psychol. 2022 Feb 15;13:738729. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.738729. eCollection 2022.
This study investigates the moderating effect of students' programs on entrepreneurship education aimed at pre-start-up and its effect on the students' behavior. This study also attempts the level of entrepreneurship education and pre-start-up behavior among students. A survey was carried out among 441 final year students, including 214 students from business programs, and 227 students from non-business programs. Data were analyzed using IBM SPSS 22 and SmartPLS 3.3.0, to perform descriptive and multi-group analysis (MGA), including assessment of measurement invariance of the composite model (MICOM). The results reveal that all direct relationships were supported. It was also found that student programs do have a moderating effect on the relationship between entrepreneurship education and pre-start-up behavior. Furthermore, the results discovered that risk control is a crucial component of entrepreneurship education and should be highlighted in the curriculum. This study contributes to the literature by considering student programs as a moderator, a comparatively new factor in the pre-start-up behavior among university students at the tertiary level. Therefore, entrepreneurship education must be properly designed, and the co-curriculum must be properly organized, so that entrepreneurship will be the preferred career choice in the future.
本研究调查了学生专业对创业前阶段创业教育的调节作用及其对学生行为的影响。本研究还尝试探究学生的创业教育水平和创业前行为。对441名大四学生进行了一项调查，其中包括214名来自商科专业的学生和227名来自非商科专业的学生。使用IBM SPSS 22和SmartPLS 3.3.0对数据进行分析，以进行描述性和多组分析（MGA），包括评估复合模型的测量不变性（MICOM）。结果表明，所有直接关系均得到支持。研究还发现，学生专业确实对创业教育与创业前行为之间的关系具有调节作用。此外，研究结果发现风险控制是创业教育的关键组成部分，应在课程中予以强调。本研究通过将学生专业视为调节变量，这是高等教育阶段大学生创业前行为中一个相对较新的因素，为该领域的文献做出了贡献。因此，必须合理设计创业教育，并妥善组织课外活动，以便创业在未来成为首选的职业选择。
