Abstract
This study sought to identify to what extent metacognition has an effect on perceived success, mediated by the entrepreneurial profile. The sample we analyzed involved 194 alumni from Business Administration, Accounting, and Economics programs from public and private higher education institutions in the state of Sergipe. The procedures involved the use of structural equation modeling and the results indicated that goal orientation has a significant direct and indirect relationship with perceived success. Metacognitive knowledge and metacognitive experience have significant indirect relationships with perceived success, and this relationship takes place with the "self-realization" and "leader" dimensions of the entrepreneurial profile. As this study's contribution, we identified metacognitive characteristics that can be improved to enhance the perception of success, such as: frequently defining goals, understanding the relationship between tasks and goals, setting specific goals, frequently evaluating a task's progress, selecting the best option for problem solving, using assertive strategies in the past, gaining prior knowledge regarding a task, breaking problems into small parts, thinking before performing a task, using different strategies, organizing time and information, selecting important information, and using intuition to formulate strategies.
Highlights
Studies involving entrepreneurship have increased considerably in the last thirty years and gained contributions from several areas and researchers, presenting new theoretical perspectives (Ferreira, Pinto & Miranda, 2015)
The procedures involved the use of structural equation modeling and the results indicated that goal orientation has a significant direct and indirect relationship with perceived success
We intend to answer the following research problem: To what extent does metacognition have an effect on the perception of success, mediated by the entrepreneurial profile?
Summary
Studies involving entrepreneurship have increased considerably in the last thirty years and gained contributions from several areas and researchers, presenting new theoretical perspectives (Ferreira, Pinto & Miranda, 2015). According to the authors, the act of entrepreneurship requires choices that offer the individual the possibility to evaluate the decisions This study assumes there is a significant positive relationship between metacognition and perceived success, which is mediated by the entrepreneurial profile, that is, the mediating variable modifies the relationship between the independent and dependent variables. Based on this context, we intend to answer the following research problem: To what extent does metacognition have an effect on the perception of success, mediated by the entrepreneurial profile?. This study promotes an improvement in the learning regulatory strategy and presents the metacognitive characteristics that affect the perception of success, which can provide refinement and learning of these characteristics, and promote an improvement in the perception of success
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