Abstract
College students’ entrepreneurial learning engagement (ELE) is a key link that affects the success of future entrepreneurship. To analyze the influencing factors of the psychological capital (PC) dimension in college students’ ELE, a total of 211 college students were selected from colleges in the Ningbo area for questionnaire survey. The principal component analysis method was used to test the difference validity of PC and ELE. One-way analysis of variance was used to analyze differences in demographic variables between PC, ELE, and positive emotions (PEs). Besides, the structural equation model was used to analyze the mediating role of PEs in PC and ELE. In addition, there was a significant difference between the unrestricted model of PC–ELE and the restricted model (p < 0.05), and the difference between the potential dimensions of “mental capital-learning input” was generally satisfactory; there were significant differences at the professional level (p < 0.01); PC had significant differences in family economic status (p < 0.01); the indirect path coefficients of PE added to the relationship between PC and ELE were 0.106 and 0.211, respectively, and there was no significance (p > 0.05). In short, the PC of college students has a significant positive influence (PI) on ELE, PC differs significantly in family economic status, and PEs differ significantly at the professional level. The research results show that there is no mediating effect of PEs in the relationship between PC and college students’ ELE.
Highlights
Entrepreneurship is a systematic project closely related to the society and people
This study carried out confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to test the difference validity of two variables, psychological capital (PC) and entrepreneurial learning engagement (ELE), and used a single group to generate two models, which were the unrestricted and restricted models (Kurihara et al, 2020)
Economic Situation Difference Taking the family economic status as an independent variable and PC, ELE, and positive emotions (PEs) as dependent variables, the results show that PC has a significant difference in family economic status (F = 2.41, p = 0.05), the PC of the subjects with a monthly income of higher than 6,000 yuan is significantly higher than that of other subjects, and there is no significant difference in the family economic status between the ELE and the PE
Summary
Entrepreneurship is a systematic project closely related to the society and people. It creates some new products and services that society needs. College student entrepreneurs mainly make decisions on an impulsive basis, without deliberate consideration, systematic investment in learning, and market research and analysis. This makes college student entrepreneurs lack the comprehensive quality and necessary. University students need to be realistic, have a passion for entrepreneurship, and develop the ability to engage in continuous learning (Jena, 2020). Individual skills such as acquiring knowledge related to entrepreneurial theory, cultivating social communication skills, improving team management, enhancing the ability to respond to emergencies, learning self-cognition and scientific planning are the basic necessary qualities that an entrepreneur must possess. Entrepreneurship learning is not all smooth sailing, and due to differences in individual character and psychological quality, college students have different levels of acceptance toward entrepreneurship education in colleges (Liu and Chen, 2018)
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