Dick-Sagoe Christopher, Lee Ka Yiu, Boakye Augustine Osei, Mpuangnan Kofi Nkonkonya, Asare-Nuamah Peter, Dick-Sagoe Anna Dankwaah
Political and Administrative Studies Department, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana.
Department of Health Sciences, Mid Sweden University, Ostersund, Sweden.
Heliyon. 2023 Jun 22;9(6):e17511. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e17511. eCollection 2023 Jun.
This study provides insightful information to guide the Lesotho government's drive to address rising youth unemployment. Through quota sampling technique, this study selected 930 students from 31 departments at National University of Lesotho. Grounded in the theory of planned behaviour (TPB), the study examined the facilitators of students' entrepreneurial intentions using mean, standard deviation, mean rank, correlation, and Mann-Whitney test. Structural equation modelling was used to determine the relationship between the three components of TPB (attitudes, perceived behavioural control, and subjective norm), and students' entrepreneurial intention. The findings show that attitudes and perceived behavioural control were positive predictors of entrepreneurial intention while subjective norm was a negative predictor. The major findings indicate that students from Business and Management Development, Business Administration, Economics, Nutrition, and Pharmacy departments had higher entrepreneurial intentions, with postgraduate students (at master level) having higher entrepreneurial decisions than undergraduate students. Policy, practice, and research implications are teased out from the findings to improve entrepreneurial education.
本研究提供了深刻的信息，以指导莱索托政府解决青年失业率不断上升的问题。通过配额抽样技术，本研究从莱索托国立大学的31个系中选取了930名学生。基于计划行为理论（TPB），本研究使用均值、标准差、平均秩、相关性和曼-惠特尼检验来考察学生创业意向的促进因素。采用结构方程模型来确定TPB的三个组成部分（态度、感知行为控制和主观规范）与学生创业意向之间的关系。研究结果表明，态度和感知行为控制是创业意向的正向预测因素，而主观规范是负向预测因素。主要研究结果表明，来自商业与管理发展、工商管理、经济学、营养学和药学系的学生有更高的创业意向，研究生（硕士水平）比本科生有更高的创业决策。从研究结果中梳理出政策、实践和研究方面的启示，以改善创业教育。
