The Impact of Socio-Cognitive Factors and Psychological Attributes on Undergraduates’ Entrepreneurial Intention and Intensity in Ghana
Abstract
Entrepreneurial thinkings and ideas aspire to motivate and nurture Ghanaian
students to self-employment and having the intention to start new jobs or ventures.
Undergraduates and graduate students possess a great potential of becoming
entrepreneurs and are somewhat near the stage of choosing a career. Although,
entrepreneurial education among undergraduates were introduced and made
compulsory in Ghana universities over the past two decades, little research have
been done with the aim of assessing its impact on socio-cognitive factors as well as
psychological attributes and to ascertain whether there exist relationships between
entrepreneurial intentions and entrepreneurial intensity and students’ career of
becoming entrepreneurs. This research seeks to contribute to the field by
investigating the impacts of Internal Locus of Control, Motivation, General Self
Efficacy, Entrepreneurial Self Efficacy, Perceived Desirability, Perceived
Enterprenuerial Success Factors and Subjective Norm (LOC, MOT, GSE, ESE, PD,
PESF and SN) on Entrepreneurial Intention (EIN) and Entrepreneurial Intensity
(EIY) for the purpose of seeing the importance of certain socio-cognitive factors
and psychological attributes of Ghana undergraduates on their entrepreneurial
intention and intensity. The study was carried out among 184 students as a sample
and gives insights into appraising entrepreneurial mind-sets of undergraduates in
Ghana. It was discovered that to a large extent LOC, PD, ESE, MOT, and PESF
have a positive impact on EIN and ESE, MOT, and PESF were found to have a
positive impact on EIY among this same group of people.
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