Bi Qingqing C, Collins Jamie
Department of Management, Marketing & Entrepreneurship, UC Business School, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
J R Soc N Z. 2021 Dec 8;52(5):526-538. doi: 10.1080/03036758.2021.1999993. eCollection 2022.
With the promotion of entrepreneurship and innovation in higher education, university students have become the emerging entrepreneurial subjects worldwide. Developing students' entrepreneurial self-efficacy can increase their entrepreneurial intentions and the likelihood to engage in student entrepreneurship. Recent studies have found that students' implicit mindsets (i.e. growth mindsets and fixed mindsets) have significant impact on their entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Building upon these studies, we argue that not only students' traits (i.e. proactivity) and mindsets influence the development of their entrepreneurial self-efficacy, students' behavioural skills relevant to entrepreneurship (i.e. entrepreneurial behaviours) function as the catalyst in the web of relationships. To test the hypothesis, we surveyed 154 students in a public university of New Zealand. The results showed that university students' entrepreneurial behaviours fully mediated the relationship between their fixed mindsets and entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and partially mediated the relationship between proactivity and entrepreneurial self-efficacy. The findings confirm the importance of both traits and mindsets in the development of students' entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and also identify the bridging role of behavioural skills. This study contributes to the implicit theory approach for understanding entrepreneurial self-efficacy and highlights the importance of practising behaviour skills to foster students' entrepreneurial self-efficacy.
随着高等教育中创业与创新的推进，大学生已成为全球新兴的创业主体。培养学生的创业自我效能感能够增强他们的创业意愿以及参与学生创业的可能性。近期研究发现，学生的内隐思维模式（即成长型思维模式和固定型思维模式）对其创业自我效能感有显著影响。基于这些研究，我们认为，不仅学生的特质（即主动性）和思维模式会影响其创业自我效能感的发展，与创业相关的学生行为技能（即创业行为）在这一关系网络中起到了催化剂的作用。为验证这一假设，我们对新西兰一所公立大学的154名学生进行了调查。结果表明，大学生的创业行为完全中介了其固定型思维模式与创业自我效能感之间的关系，部分中介了主动性与创业自我效能感之间的关系。研究结果证实了特质和思维模式在学生创业自我效能感发展中的重要性，同时也确定了行为技能的桥梁作用。本研究有助于从内隐理论视角理解创业自我效能感，并凸显了通过实践行为技能来培养学生创业自我效能感的重要性。
