Entrepreneurial role models and college students’ entrepreneurial calling: A moderated mediation model

作者：Dongmei Jin, Xiaomeng Liu, Fu-Qin Zhang, Zhiyi Wen · 发表于：Frontiers in Psychology · 年份：2023 · DOI：10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1129495 · 被引用次数：11 · 研究领域：Medicine

Introduction College entrepreneurship education should not only cultivate a group of college students who have strong willingness to start a business immediately after graduation, but also pay attention to future entrepreneurship success of college students. Correspondingly, in addition to attaching importance to improving college students’ entrepreneurial intention, college entrepreneurship education should pay attention to improving college students’ entrepreneurial calling. At present, there is insufficient research on the association between entrepreneurial role models and entrepreneurial calling. We aim to study the mechanism and boundary condition of the association between entrepreneurial role models and entrepreneurial calling. Methods A longitudinal survey was distributed among 519 students from 16 colleges and universities in China. In the survey, the college students answered questions on entrepreneurial role models, entrepreneurial calling, entrepreneurial perceived behavioral control and entrepreneurial hands-on practice. Hierarchical regression was conducted, testing the association between entrepreneurial role models and entrepreneurial calling of college students, mediated by entrepreneurial perceived behavioral control and moderated by entrepreneurial hands-on practice. Results Therefore, based on the social learning theory, the theory of planned behavior and the entrepreneurial event model, and by hierarchical regression of the data, this study confirmed tha...