Causal factors and effects on entrepreneurial intentions of vocational students

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The research objectives are (1) to analyze the level of entrepreneurial
intention, attitudes towards entrepreneurship, self-efficacy for entrepreneurship,
characteristics of lifelong learners, and entrepreneurial behaviors of vocational
students, (2) to develop and examine the coherence of the cause-and-effect
model of vocational students’ entrepreneurial intentions, and (3) to study the
direct and indirect effects of factors affecting the entrepreneurial intentions
and entrepreneurial behaviors of vocational students. The research samples are
1,122 vocational students at the high vocational certificate using the multi-stage
random sampling. The research instrument was a rating scale questionnaire.
The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, and the structural equation
model was analyzed using the Mplus 8.6 program.
The findings of the study revealed that (1) the level of entrepreneurial
intention (M = 3.14, SD = 0.84), attitudes towards entrepreneurship (M = 3.22,
SD = 0.79), self-efficacy for entrepreneurship (M = 3.21, SD = 0.79),
characteristics of lifelong learners (M = 3.18, SD = 0.81), as well as entrepreneurial
behaviors of vocational students (M = 3.21, SD = 0.83) appeared at a medium
level for all variables, (2) the development results of the cause-and-effect
model of entrepreneurial intentions were consistent with the empirical data
with χ² (154) = 1,206.10, p < .001, RMSEA = .08, CFI = .97, TLI = .97, SRMR
= .03, (3) the self-efficacy embraced the greatest effect on entrepreneurship,
where the total influence value on entrepreneurial behaviors was .60.
The direct effect was .55, and the indirect effect on entrepreneurial behaviors
through entrepreneurial intentions and attitudes towards entrepreneurship
was .05.