Abstract
Entrepreneurial emotion is a new study that is evolving in entrepreneurship education. Emotions affect the capacity of a person to cope with ambiguity in making judgments and decisions. This study aims to examine whether there is a difference between entrepreneurial positive emotions and entrepreneurial negative emotions of both business and non-business students in higher learning institutions. This quantitative study involved 477 final year students in public universities, comprising 214 business students, and 243 non-business students. The results show the entrepreneurial positive emotions are different among business students and non-business students, while the entrepreneurial negative emotions are the opposite. The mean score for business students in entrepreneurial positive emotions was higher compared to non-business students. These findings reflect that the entrepreneurial knowledge and skills acquired through entrepreneurship education have enhanced their confidence and ability to organize or use their emotions more effectively in starting a business. Besides that, the results show the negative emotions of students in starting a business are not influenced by their study program. All students take into account their negative emotions in making an action to start a business. In addition, students who have entrepreneurial potential will use their emotions as much as possible in making a decision. Therefore, this study contributes to the knowledge of entrepreneurial emotions that involve positive and negative emotions among university students in entrepreneurship education.
Highlights
A new study has recently drawn researchers' attention is emotions in entrepreneurship education
The findings showed that students' positive emotions are higher than negative emotions regardless of the learning environment
H1: There is a difference between the entrepreneurial positive emotions of business and non-business students
Summary
A new study has recently drawn researchers' attention is emotions in entrepreneurship education. This is explained by [1], where today’s research begin to examine how a person “feels”, as opposed to what they “think”. According to [3], a person's emotions and behaviours can be influenced when making a decision, due to the existence of external and internal factors. He explained that the factors include the information that they obtained, and the evaluation that they made on an action or decision. The study of emotions is important in developing entrepreneurial potential because emotions precede a person’s assessment of their likelihood of successfully carrying out entrepreneurial tasks and activities [4,5,29]
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