Abstract
The purpose of this study is to identify the influence of interest, attitude, teachers and peers towards entrepreneurial career intention of religious secondary school students in Malaysia. The objectives of this study are to identify the level of interest, attitude, teachers’ guidance, peers and behaviour towards students’ entrepreneurial career intention, and to identify the influence of attitude, interest, teachers’ guidance, and peers towards student behaviour on entrepreneurial career intention. This quantitative study uses a survey design involving 328 religious secondary school students in the Sepang district based on multistage sampling starting from stratified random sampling to simple random sampling. The result of the study showed that the domains of attitude, interest, teachers’ guidance, peers and behaviour of entrepreneurial career intention are at a moderately high level. The result of the analysis also revealed that the domain of attitude, interest, teachers’ guidance and peers have significant influence over behaviour on entrepreneurial career intention at 62.6 percent. The domain of interest is the best way to predict the behaviour of students’ entrepreneurial career intention compared to other domains. On the other hand, the domain of attitude is the worst in predicting the behaviour of entrepreneurial career intention. These findings clearly indicate that religious secondary school students have a moderately high tendency to choose entrepreneurship as a career which is driven by interest, teachers’ guidance and peers. The implications of the study also contribute to the applicability of the Theory of Planned Behaviour by Ajzen (1991). Meanwhile, schools need to play a role nurturing entrepreneurial attitudes through formal and informal education continuously.
Highlights
The Malaysia Education Blueprint 2013-2025 aims to strengthen the development of vocational education by providing the necessary practical skills, especially in the field of entrepreneurship, and produce students with high leadership skills
What is the level of attitude, interest, teachers’ guidance, peers and entrepreneurial career intention behaviour?
To answer this research question, a total of 50 items were used to measure the level of each domain; attitudes (10 items), interests (10 items), teacher education (10 items), peers (10 items) and student entrepreneurial career intention behaviour (10 items)
Summary
The Malaysia Education Blueprint 2013-2025 aims to strengthen the development of vocational education by providing the necessary practical skills, especially in the field of entrepreneurship, and produce students with high leadership skills. The Secondary School Standard Curriculum (KSS) was introduced to emphasise on High Level Thinking Skills (HTLS) to encourage students to think creatively and critically when solving problems. It is seen that this new curriculum is able to help students in developing their potential and entrepreneurial attitudes as early as their secondary school years. Secondary schools in Malaysia are a place to nurture young people who can adopt a positive lifestyle and contribute to the country’s economic progress [1]. In order to produce better people, one of the goals set by the government for secondary schools is the establishment of entrepreneurship clubs through the entrepreneurship cocurriculum.
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