Entrepreneurship Education and Entrepreneurial Intentions among Malaysian University Students: Data Analysis using SEM to Test the Hypotheses through Mediating Effects

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Authors :  Dr. Parimala Rengiah,  Dr. Ilham Sentosa

Abstract – A study is conducted to test the entrepreneurial intentions through entrepreneurship education among Malaysian university students. A theoretical framework has been developed taking into account all the major variables to test the entrepreneurial intentions of the Malaysian university students and the hypothetical model developed for the study is tested using the structural equation modelling (SEM) approach. The study investigates the independent variables of entrepreneurship curricula, teaching methodologies and universities roles and the mediating variables of attitude and stakeholder support system towards the dependent variable entrepreneurial intentions through a questionnaire survey from four of the entrepreneurial focused Malaysian universities and data was collected from 396 questionnaires and analysed. The model was tested using a two-stage SEM.

                 This paper describes the second stage using CFA to evaluate the direct and indirect effects of the mediating variables on the exogenous variables towards the endogenous variable through the application of the path analysis technique. The hypotheses and research objectives are to empirically examine the variables of attitude towards goals and family roles as mediators in the relationship of the construct of entrepreneurship education to entrepreneurial intentions in this study. The results of the significance of the hypotheses have been tested and analysed.