Opportunity Recognition, Career Decision-Making, Self-Efficacy and Social Entrepreneurial Intention among Higher Education Students
- Title
- Opportunity Recognition, Career Decision-Making, Self-Efficacy and Social Entrepreneurial Intention among Higher Education Students
- Creator
- Viswanath, Parvathy
- Contributor
- Kumar, Aneesh
- Description
- Building on the entrepreneurship cognition literature, the present research aims to develop a model to examine the direct and indirect effects of opportunity recognition, career decisionmaking and self-efficacy on social entrepreneurial intention. The research adopted a crosssectional design. The research was divided into three distinct studies, each conducted with a specific objective. The data collected for three studies included higher education students newlineacross India. Studies 1 and 2 aimed to develop and validate two scales, namely social entrepreneurial opportunity recognition and social entrepreneurial career decision-making following steps in tool construction. The sample size was 600 for study 1 and 845 for study 2. The social entrepreneurial opportunity recognition scale had 24-items that measures opportunity recognition with six motivating factors as the lower order constructs which are life experiences, social awareness, social inclination, community development, institutional voids, and natural option for a meaningful career. The social entrepreneurial career decision scale had 20 items focusing on the appraisal components in pre-entry social entrepreneurial career decision-making and has four factors, which are relevance, coping potential, knowledge and resources, and normative significance. Study 3 examined the direct and indirect effects of opportunity recognition, career decision-making and self-efficacy on social newlineentrepreneurial intention using a sample of 605 students. The findings show that opportunity recognition influences social entrepreneurial intention and is partially mediated by career decision-making. Furthermore, self-efficacy moderates the mediating role of career decisionmaking between opportunity recognition and intention. This research facilitates a profound understanding of social entrepreneurial cognition and pre-entry decision-making.
- Source
- Author's Submission
- Date
- 2024-01-01
- Publisher
- Christ(Deemed to be University)
- Subject
- Psychology
- Rights
- Open Access
- Relation
- 61000363
- Format
- Language
- English
- Type
- PhD
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10603/585430
Collection
Citation
Viswanath, Parvathy, “Opportunity Recognition, Career Decision-Making, Self-Efficacy and Social Entrepreneurial Intention among Higher Education Students,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed February 23, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/12409.