THE INFLUENCE OF PERSONAL AND FINANCIAL COMPETENCES ON ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION: MEDIATING ROLE OF PROTECTION MOTIVATION

Akbari, Morteza; Hatami, Alireza; Pourjamshidi, Hadis; Mahavarpour, Nasrin

doi:10.22047/ijee.2023.406543.1994

THE INFLUENCE OF PERSONAL AND FINANCIAL COMPETENCES ON ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION: MEDIATING ROLE OF PROTECTION MOTIVATION

Document Type : Scientific - Research

Authors

Morteza Akbari ¹

alireza Hatami ²

Hadis Pourjamshidi ³

Nasrin Mahavarpour ⁴

¹ Associate Prof. University of Tehran

² University of Tehran

³ Razi University

⁴ Alzahra Uni

https://doi.org/10.22047/ijee.2023.406543.1994

Abstract

The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effect of personal and financial competencies on the formation of entrepreneurial intention with the mediating effect of Protection Motivation Theory (PMT). This investigation in terms of purpose is in the category of applied research and in terms of the method of data collection, it is a cross-sectional survey type. The statistical population of the research includes 282 foreign students studying in Tehran University, 183 of them were selected according to Cochran’s formula and with the purposeful sampling method available. In order to collect data, a researcher-made questionnaire was used, and to determine its validity, face, diagnostic, and convergent validity were used to determine the extracted mean variance index. In order to determine the reliability of the research tool, Cronbach’s Alpha method and composite reliability were used, and the resulting values were at the appropriate level. The findings of the research indicate that entrepreneurial competence has a positive and significant effect on entrepreneurial intention through the mediation of protective motivation, but its effect was not confirmed directly. Also, the results showed that threat assessment and entrepreneurial intention do not have a confirmed relationship; on the other hand, coping assessment has a significant relationship with entrepreneurial intention.

Keywords

Entrepreneurial competence

protective motivation theory

entrepreneurial intention

20.1001.1.16072316.1402.25.99.6.0

Subjects

Innovation, Creativity, Entrepreneurship in Engineering Education

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