Developing student’s social entrepreneurial intention

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of emotional intelligence, experience of social experience, previous entrepreneurial experience, environmental support toward social entrepreneurial intention with mediating role of social entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Research sample consisted of 125 students who has some social experience and entrepreneurship from various universities in Semarang. The data carried out in 2019 and analyzed with a Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) using AMOS v 21. The results show that emotional intelligence, social activities, previous entrepreneurial experience were significantly and positively associated with social entrepreneurial, self-efficacy and social entrepreneurial intention. Social entrepreneurial self-efficacy significantly and positively influenced on social entrepreneurial intention. However, the effects of environmental support on social entrepreneurial intention was insignificant. The significant mediating role of student’s social entrepreneurial self-efficacy in developing social entrepreneurial intention showed significant contribution of social cognitive theory and career development theory to realize student’s social entrepreneurial intention. University and government are requested to give more attention in developing social entrepre-neurship in order to have more social entrepreneur graduated from universities.

Keywords

• social entrepreneurial self-efficacy
• social entrepreneurial intention