Investigating the Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Enthusiasm in the Relationship Between Academic Support and Students' virtual Entrepreneurship

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1 Master of Education and Human Resource Improvement, Payame Noor University, Shiraz, Iran

2 PhD of Curriculum Planning, Birjand University, Birjand, Iran

3 Associate Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Payame Noor University, Shiraz, Iran

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of entrepreneurial passion in the relationship between academic support and virtual entrepreneurship of medical students in Bushehr. The research method was descriptive and correlational. The statistical population included all students of the Bushehr University of Medical Sciences (2136) who was studying in the academic year 2017-2018. The study sample was selected by stratified random sampling method of 326 students. In this study, to collect data, Sands and Plankt academic support questionnaires, Linan and Chen's virtual entrepreneurship inclination and Branbeck et al 's entrepreneurial enthusiasm were used. Data analysis of this study was performed using the Pearson correlation method and path analysis by SPSS and LISREL software. Findings showed that the support of teachers, family and peers has a direct and positive effect on the dimensions of entrepreneurial enthusiasm (founding, innovative, developmental enthusiasm). The findings also showed that the dimension of founding, innovative and developmental enthusiasm has a direct and positive effect on the desire for virtual entrepreneurship. The results of indirect effects of variables also showed that the dimensions of academic support through the mediation of entrepreneurial passion have a positive and significant effect on the tendency to virtual entrepreneurship; Therefore, in order to create a desire for virtual entrepreneurship in students, it is suggested that with the academic support of students, the entrepreneurial passion was strengthened in them and through this entrepreneurial desire, a positive step was taken towards their virtual entrepreneurship.

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  • Receive Date: 27 November 2020
  • Revise Date: 04 December 2020
  • Accept Date: 24 December 2020

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