Influence of entrepreneurship curriculum experience on entrepreneurial intention

Abstract

We used social cognitive career theory to investigate the influence of college students’ entrepreneurship curriculum experience on their entrepreneurial intention, and constructed a theoretical model to explain its mechanism. We collected data from 293 Chinese college students by distributing questionnaires. Results of structural equation modeling demonstrated that entrepreneurship curriculum experience was positively related to entrepreneurial intention, with entrepreneurial self‐efficacy and outcome expectation entrepreneurship acting as mediators. Entrepreneurial self‐efficacy played the more significant mediating role of the two. In addition, we demonstrated through an exploratory factor analysis that gender had a close correlation with the influence of entrepreneurship curriculum experience on entrepreneurial intention, such that men scored significantly higher than women did on the dimensions of outcome expectation entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial intention. Implications of the findings are discussed.