Disposition Levels Research Articles

Influence of Perceived Helicopter Parenting, Critical Thinking Disposition, Cognitive Ability, and Learning Motivation on Learning Behavior among Nursing Students.

The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of perceived helicopter parenting, critical thinking disposition, cognitive ability, and learning motivation on learning behavior in nursing students in South Korea. The participants in this study were 149 sophomore nursing students from two universities using convenience sampling. The two universities were similar in terms of type, curricula, and size. Data were collected from October to November 2017 using self-reported questionnaires. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation coefficients, and hierarchical multiple regression with SPSS 22.0. The mean score of perceived helicopter parenting was 3.06 ± 0.65 out of six points. The levels of critical thinking disposition, cognitive ability, learning motivation, and learning behavior were medium. Factors affecting learning behavior were learning motivation (β = 0.40, p < 0.001), cognitive ability (β = 0.26, p = 0.001), and critical thinking disposition (β = 0.25, p = 0.001). These variables explained 32% of the variance in learning behavior (F = 18.21, p < 0.001). Teaching methods are necessary to increase the critical thinking disposition and learning competence of nursing students. In addition, it is important to consider the learning motivation of nursing students for effective learning.

Social-Emotional Competence and Academic Achievement of Nursing Students: A Canonical Correlation Analysis.

This study was conducted to investigate the correlations between social–emotional competence (SEC) and academic achievement (AA) among nursing students and to compare students’ level of each core skill of SEC (critical thinking disposition, self-directed learning, creativity, emotional intelligence, problem-solving, and collaboration) and academic achievement (clinical performance and subjective academic achievement). A cross-sectional design was adapted. Data were collected from 195 nursing students in the junior and senior years who had participated in clinical practicum from four universities in South Korea. General characteristics, levels of critical thinking disposition, self-directed learning, creativity, emotional intelligence, problem-solving, collaboration, and academic achievement were collected via self-reported questionnaire. Canonical correlation analysis was performed to evaluate the relationship between SEC and AA. The canonical correlation coefficient between SEC and AA was 0.762. Critical thinking disposition (Rs = 0.89), problem-solving (Rs = 0.86), and cooperation (Rs = 0.80) made the most important contributions to SEC. Clinical performance (Rs = 0.95) and subjective AA (Rs = 0.57) were correlated with AA. SEC should be addressed to improve the AA of nursing students. All core skills of SEC should be regularly promoted. It is particularly urgent for nursing students to improve their creativity.

I want to go home: should we abandon open surgery for treatment of rectal prolapse? Consideration of discharge destination following surgery for rectal prolapse.

Despite the financial and value-based implications associated with higher levels of care at discharge, few studies have evaluated modifiable treatment factors that may optimize postacute care. The aim of this work was to assess the association between operative approach and disposition to a higher level of care and other outcomes following surgery for rectal prolapse. Using a retrospective cohort study design, the database of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program was used to identify patients with rectal prolapse who underwent perineal repair or open or laparoscopic rectopexy with or without resection between 2012 and 2017. Discharge destination and 30-day postoperative outcomes were compared using propensity score mathcing and weighting. Nomograms generated using multivariable regression calculated the risk of requiring higher levels of care upon discharge and morbidity. Propensity-score analysis included 3000 patients [1500 in the perineal group, 580 in the open abdominal group and 920 in the minimally invasive (MIS) group]. Patients who received open abdominal surgery were more likely to require elevation of care at destination compared with those who received perineal surgery (OR 1.65, 95% CI 1.22-1.24) and MIS abdominal surgery (OR 1.80, 95% CI 1.18-2.76). Similar effects were seen for overall morbidity. Increased age, higher American Society of Anesthesiologists class, congestive heart failure, dependent functional status and open surgery were independent predictors of discharge to higher level of care (c-statistic=0.79). Open surgery compared with MIS and perineal surgery was associated with higher levels of discharge disposition following rectal prolapse surgery. Future research should continue to identify modifiable treatment factors that reduce poor postoperative outcomes among patients with rectal prolapse.

The association of mindfulness and prosocial behavior is not stronger among highly ethical individuals

Some scholars contended that mindfulness practice without explicit ethical instruction may have no or even harmful effects on wholesome actions, while others say the opposite. This study was designed to throw new light on this controversy. Using 709 undergraduates as participants, we constructed mediated moderation models to examine the mindfulness-prosociality association among participants with higher or lower levels of ethical dispositions and/or prosocial values/beliefs. The results showed that the association of mindfulness and prosociality via empathy was significant regardless levels of the participants’ ethical dispositions. And the associations were even stronger among participants’ who have lower relative to higher levels of moral identity and prosocial value. That is, less ethical individuals may benefit more from mindfulness training. This indicates that mindfulness along is sufficient to cultivate prosociality. Findings of this study support the proposition that the benefit of mindfulness is universal and independent of Buddhist traditions. However, this study does not indicate that Buddhist ethics are dispensable, especially when advanced wisdom and virtues are expected to be cultivated.

The Antecedent Role of Proactive Personality in Career Self-Management

The Antecedent Role of Proactive Personality in Career Self-Management Lulu Yu (bio), Weiqiao Fan (bio), Zhiwei Wang (bio), Xiaofang Wang (bio), and Chuan Yu (bio) After the implementation of the Chinese Higher Education Enrollment Policy in 1999, the Ministry of Chinese Education (2017) reported that the number of undergraduates had increased dramatically, up to nearly 8 million in 2018. Meanwhile, because of global competition, technological advances, and job insecurity, personal career development for these students has become more and more sophisticated and even beyond their understanding (Inkson, 2004). This may result in a series of adaptation problems for undergraduates in their career development, such as low awareness of the need to seek professional and career information and lack of career goals. Wang (2018) reported that only 49% of 2017 undergraduates were hired into jobs that matched their majors, only 67% were satisfied with their jobs, and around 33% left their positions within 6 months. A survey in 2010 showed that only 58% of employers were satisfied with the overall performance of those employees who had graduated from universities within the preceding 5 years (Department of Employment Promotion, 2011). Accordingly, it is of great importance to increase the level of career self-management among Chinese undergraduates so that they can improve their career development and adaptation. According to the career self-management model (Lent & Brown, 2013), two factors should be important predictors of undergraduates' career goals: personality traits and social cognitive variables. Personality traits are the relatively stable tendencies that coordinate behavioral performance and regulate emotions; these traits influence undergraduates' career exploration. Social cognitive variables include such attributes as sense of self-efficacy, outcome expectation, and career goal. Self-efficacy refers to the belief about one's own ability to manage and address specific tasks and unusual challenges, which is relevant in the process of career exploration and decision making. Outcome expectation involves the anticipated consequences of performing those behaviors that are seen as leading to a specific result. Career goal refers to an individual's career exploratory plans and intentions to perform a particular behavior in their career development. The career selfmanagement model has been empirically supported in the literature. For example, Lent et al. (2016) reported that the personality trait of conscientiousness has direct effects on career self-efficacy and goals and indirect effects on career outcome expectations. Proactive personality, a type of personality disposed toward proactive behavior, is regarded as having a relatively stable tendency to affect individuals' activities (Bateman & Crant, 1993). It is empirically supported to predict work performance, innovative behaviors, and job satisfaction (Zhang & Yang, 2017). A sample of international students showed that their proactive behaviors, particularly [End Page 351] information-seeking behaviors, were positively linked to their communication satisfaction with instructors and to their school-life satisfaction (Cho & Lee, 2016). The results from a sample of 180 full-time employees and their supervisors over 2 years indicated that proactive personality was related to career initiative, which in turn had a positive relationship to career progression (salary growth and the number of promotions during the previous 2 years) and career satisfaction (Seibert et al., 2001). Some researchers have reported that those people with higher levels of proactive disposition are more conscientious (Major et al., 2006) and that proactive personality is related to career self-efficacy in career exploration (Qu et al., 2015; Shang & Gan, 2009). In other words, undergraduates who have a stronger sense of responsibility might willingly develop much more selfefficacy or outcome expectations, which in turn may lead to more specific goals in their career development. Few studies have been designed to examine the association among personality variables (e.g., proactive disposition) and career goal intentions, particularly in Chinese undergraduates. Our aim for this study was to verify the antecedent role of proactive personality in terms of the career self-management model among a sample of Chinese undergraduate students. We hypothesized that proactive personality would have effects on career goal via career self-efficacy and outcome expectation. This may provide not only some new evidence for the relationship between personality traits and career goal intentions, but also a new perspective for helping undergraduates develop their career interests and plans and carry out career...

SCIENTIST AS RESEARCHER AND PERSONALITY

The identity of the scientist is regarded as a complex self-organizing system, through which implements its creative potential. The main functions of the system are disclosed in the dynamics of metaphysic cognitive structures of the kernel. In the structure of the individual scientist allocated base and disposition levels, through the elements which link cognitive kernel of personality with the socio-cultural sphere.

A material for education process and the Teacher: the use of digital storytelling in preschool science education

ABSTRACT Background One of the technologies that can be used to enhance the education process is digital stories. Digital stories can be used for different purposes due to their benefits to the education process. When the research conducted on higher levels of education has been examined, it has been determined that the use of digital stories in science teaching has a positive effect on teaching and learning process. Yet, no study conducted to investigate the process of using digital stories in pre-school science activities has been found in the literature. Purpose Through the current study, it was aimed to investigate the pre-service teachers’ opinions and experiences about the process including the selection of the science concepts, preparation, and implementation of the digital story by focusing on the use of digital stories in pre-school science activities. Study group and Method The study was conducted on the basis of the multiple holistic case design. The study group of the current research is comprised of six pre-service teachers with differing levels of technology disposition. In the collection of the research data, observations, semi-structured interviews, and document analysis were used. In the analysis of the collected data, the data obtained from observations, interviews, and document analyses were evaluated together through content analysis. Results: The findings of the current study are presented under two main themes; the digital story as a material for education and the digital story as a means of technology for the teacher. The results are discussed in reference to the advantages of using digital stories in pre-school science activities, the dimensions that need to be improved, limitations of using digital stories, and digital literacy. Conclusion The current study has produced some data about the advantages of using digital stories in pre-school science activities, which aspects of them should be developed and which bring about limitations to their use. Another important conclusion of the current study points out the importance of incorporating technology in general and digital stories in particular into teacher training programs.

Information overload, stress, and emergency managerial thinking

We investigate emergency managers' perceptions of information overload from digital sources and examine the relationship of information overload to stress, analytical and intuitive thinking, and managers’ critical thinking disposition. We survey 273 county-level emergency managers from 43 states, and conduct semi-structured interviews with 19 emergency managers to investigate these questions. Above and beyond the effects of age, education, experience, and time spent on emergency managerial work, higher levels of perceived information overload from digital sources were significantly associated with higher levels of perceived stress. Holding the same variables constant, higher levels of perceived stress were linked with lower levels of analytical thinking and higher levels of intuitive thinking. Further, managers who reported higher levels of critical thinking disposition reported lower levels of stress. While we cannot imply causation, our qualitative analysis enriches the survey findings by highlighting problems of digital overload in managerial environments.

The impact of advertising creativity, warning-based appeals and green dispositions on the attentional effectiveness of environmental advertisements

Accompanying the growing call for ecological sustainability, environmental advertising is playing an increasingly important role in green marketing to foster environmental concern and pro-environmental behavior. The present study examined the impact of two factors on people’s selective attention to green advertisements: advertising creativity (by comparing creative vs. standard advertisements) and appeal type (by comparing warning-based vs. vision-based appeals). The study also investigated the association between advertising effectiveness and individual differences in levels of green dispositions, including environmental concern and value orientation. To explore these issues the study employed a Rapid Serial Visual Presentation paradigm to measure the magnitude of the “attentional blink” arising from people attending to environmental advertisements of varying creativity and appeal type. Findings revealed a significant attentional blink effect for environmental advertising (indicative of heightened selective attention) that was greater for creative advertisements than standard advertisements. A significant association was also found between the magnitude of the attentional blink and dispositional differences in environment-related altruistic value. Results extend previous findings relating to the attentional blink as an index of advertising effectiveness, and shed light on the importance for green marketing of advertising creativity, advertising appeal and environmental value.

Providing Patient Mobilization With a Mobility Technician Improves Staff Efficiency and Constrains Cost in Primary Total Hip Arthroplasty

BackgroundMobility technicians (MTs) demonstrate value in constraining the cost of total joint replacement procedures. MTs are certified medical assistants with specialized ambulation/gait training who work under the direction of the nursing staff to meet patient mobilization demands in hospital wards. This study analyzed their impact on primary total hip arthroplasty (THA). MethodsData were retrospectively reviewed from both the time before and the time after MTs were introduced to the hospital for demographic information (ie, age, gender, race, and payer) and clinical measures (ie, length of stay and discharge disposition). The control group was treated and mobilized according to standard physical therapy and nursing staff protocols. Study group subjects had access to the MTs at the direction of their registered nurse. Included subjects underwent a primary THA procedure for arthritic conditions or hip fractures, or for conversion from a previous hip surgery. Excluded were subjects who underwent procedures for revision, bilateral, or hip resurfacing procedures. ResultsThe study and control groups included 542 and 1297 subjects, respectively. They shared a median length of stay of 2 days (P = .121). More study group subjects were discharged home than were their control group counterparts (91.51%-87.43%, P = .012). Cost analysis revealed an annual savings of $119,794.50 in total first post-acute care (ie, the period spent at a patient’s initial discharge disposition level) costs to the institution. Therefore, MTs would need to successfully treat only 5 patients annually to recoup a savings equivalent to their salary. ConclusionMTs support the recovery of THA patients in the hospital, in turn optimizing their discharge disposition. Institutions may experience a financial benefit in a bundled payment system, in which avoiding costly rehab facilities may result in savings over the episode.

The Dark or Bright Side of Entrepreneurs' Social Capital: Effects on Creativity and Innovation

Creativity and innovation phenomena, which are closely interrelated concepts with entrepreneurship, interact with entrepreneurs' social capital through their entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystems. Entrepreneurs' social capital can be influential in various ways in the creativity and innovation processes. Some studies focus on the benefits of social capital, while others focus on the current and potential negative consequences. The concepts of creativity, social capital and innovation in entrepreneurship and the relationships and connections between these variables constitute the subject of this study. All of the participants in the study were trained on entrepreneurship (511) and some of them (211) established their own business. The relational variables of the research are patent application and ownership of entrepreneur/entrepreneur candidates (as a concrete indicator of the innovation process); and independent variables are creative thinking disposition and social capital. While the social capital and creative thinking disposition levels of entrepreneurs are determined and measured by the scales, data regarding the ownership of industrial property rights (patents, utility models, etc.) are taken into consideration for innovation performance. According to the results of the analysis, it was observed that social capital had a positive effect on the creativity of entrepreneurs and innovation performance of enterprises.

INVESTIGATING STUDENT’S CRITICAL THINKING DISPOSITION BASED ON GENDER IN PHYSICS TEACHING WITH INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA

Interactive multimedia is able to combine various kinds of representations into one whole media unit. These representations are in the form of visual, auditory, and procedural representations. Interactive multimedia capabilities can directly stimulate the development of students' critical thinking skills. This research has explored the increasing tendency of students to think critically or called critical thinking disposition. In particular, this study compared the increasing levels of critical thinking disposition of male and female students. Field trials employed a quasi-experiment with a pretest and posttest control group design. The subject consisted of 16 male and 16 female students in senior high school at Mataram, Indonesia. The research instrument used description problem that has been adapted to the indicators of critical thinking disposition, namely truth-seeking, open-mindedness, analyticity, systematic, and inquisitiveness. The results indicate that of N-gain research for male students were 35.5 and female 36.4. This shows that the use of interactive multimedia has a positive effect on improving critical thinking disposition in both male and female students.

MENGEMBANGKAN DISPOSISI MATEMATIS SISWA SMP MELALUI PENDEKATAN PROBLEM POSING

Learning mathematics is not only aimed at developing mathematical cognitive abilities, but also for developing affective domains. One important aspect in the affective domain that is very influential and determines success in learning mathematics is the positive view of students on mathematics or in mathematics learning called mathematical disposition. A student who has a high disposition will be more persistent and resilient in facing mathematical problems that are more challenging and will be more responsible for their own learning and always develop good habits in mathematics. The problem posing approach which in the learning process requires students to ask questions and make their solutions is expected to be able to change students 'views of mathematics to be more positive, while also improving students' mathematical abilities. This study aims to examine the differences in the levels of mathematical disposition of junior high school students before and after learning through the problem posing approach. The type of research is experimental research with the design of one group pre-test post-test design. The population in this study were all VII grade students of Bandar Baru 1 Junior High School, with research samples of class VII2 students selected through random sampling techniques. The instrument used to obtain the research data was a mathematical disposition scale questionnaire sheet. The statistical test used to analyze data on differences in mathematical disposition of junior high school students before and after learning through the problem posing approach is paired t-test. The results showed that there were significant differences in the level of mathematical disposition of junior high school students before and after learning through the problem posing approach. This means that students' mathematical dispositions get better after they get a problem posing learning approach. &#x0D; &#x0D; Keywords: Mathematical Disposition, Problem Posing Approach

Hemşirelik Öğrencilerinin Eleştirel Düşünme Eğilimleri ile Otonomi Düzeyleri Arasındaki İlişki

INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between nursing students’ critical thinking disposition and autonomy levels. METHODS: The descriptive-relationship seeking study was conducted with 288 nursing students in the nursing department of a state university. Data were collected by using the Descriptive Characteristics Information Form, which included socio-demographic characteristics, California Critical Thinking Disposition Scale and Sociotropy-Autonomy Scale. Data were analyzed by number, percentage, mean, standard deviation and Pearson correlation tests. RESULTS: It was found that the students’ mean autonomy subscale of Sociotropy-Autonomy Scale score was 87.43±11.27 and the overall mean score of critical thinking disposition was 232.52±23.30. There was a statistically significant positive correlation between the students› overall mean scores of California Critical Thinking Disposition Scale and autonomy subscale scores of Sociotropy-Autonomy Scale (r = 0.526, p &lt;0.010). DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: In the study, the autonomy levels of the students were above the middle level; critical thinking disposition levels were low; There was a positive relationship between critical thinking disposition and autonomy levels. The results of the study suggest that nursing education curricula should be revised and restructured in order to raise students’ critical thinking and autonomy levels in nursing education.

Examining teachers' disposition towards sustainable education through discriminant analysis

This research aimed at predicting teachers' disposition to sustainable education from their views regarding the evaluation of curricula and student-centred teaching methods. The attempt was made to develop a convenient discriminant function for placement of teachers in lower, medium and higher levels of disposition to sustainable education. It is a quantitative research conducted on social studies teachers teaching at secondary schools in the central district of Sivas province of Turkey. It was found out that the variables such as perception regarding the evaluation of curricula and attitude towards student-centred teaching methods proved to be statistically significant in distinguishing teachers' attitudes regarding sustainable education by looking at their disposition in this regard. As a conclusion, the discriminant function generated here could provide an accurate classification percentage of 68.7% above the relative chance criterion.

Assessment of the disposition of the future Ph.D to research and innovation activity: criteria, indicators, levels

The relevance of the research is the need to enhance the research and innovation training effectiveness of future PhD students, who are able to compete in the international scientific environment. A mechanism for assessing the disposition of future doctors of philosophy to research and innovation is presented in this article, using a criterion-level approach. The disposition is represented by a set of motivational and goal-oriented, personally-creative, content-active and reflective-perspective components. The motivational, creative, cognitive, activity and reflexive disposition criteria are defined. These criteria are measured through the system of proposed indicators. Low (adaptation), medium (search) and high (creative) levels of disposition for research and innovation activity are defined. The component characteristic of the levels of disposition is presented, which is a prerequisite for the construction of a conceptual model of research and innovation training of graduate students. It is proved, that the general level of disposition of future doctors of philosophy to research and innovation activity is determined mainly by its productivity. Low-level graduate students will have only those results of research and innovation activity that are stipulated by the formal requirements, i.e. abstracts at national and international conferences and articles in the state language in professional editions of Ukraine.The medium level is characterized by the fact that a graduate student: has publications in foreign editions; finds ways of their practical application, which is confirmed by existing patents; competes for additional funding, so prepares applications and participates in grants, scholarship awards. Finally, a high level of disposition describes a graduate student, who has publications in Scopus and Web of Science international science databases and / or real experience in attracting external funding to implement his/her own projects (grant, award, scholarship, contract, license sold). The criteria, indicators and levels, identified in the article, provide an opportunity to diagnose the disposition of future doctors of philosophy to research and innovation activity in the process of their preparation, as well as to identify those components of that disposition that are not formed enough

The Implementation of WebQuest-supported Critical Thinking Instruction in Pre-service English Teacher Education: The Turkish Context

Critical thinking, a vital skill for the 21st century, has become a desirable educational outcome by educators. Promoting students’ critical thinking has been a concern in various educational settings and the role of teachers is considered to be the most significant factor for successful instructional implementations. The present study aims to examine the effects of WebQuest-supported critical thinking instruction on the critical thinking disposition levels of Turkish pre-service teachers (PTs) of English and to determine whether receiving WebQuest-supported critical thinking instruction leads to a change in the PTs’ understanding of critical thinking. Data were collected from 60 freshman PTs studying at a state university in Istanbul, Turkey. Thirty PTs were assigned to the experimental group and received WebQuest-supported critical thinking instruction, while 30 PTs were assigned to the control group and received traditional text-only instruction. The study lasted seven weeks and data were collected by means of the Turkish version of the California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory and semi-structured focus group interviews conducted before and after the treatment. Findings revealed that the WebQuest-supported critical thinking instruction produced statistically significant differences in the PTs’ critical thinking disposition levels and the PTs demonstrated clearer awareness of critical thinking at the end of the study.

ANALISIS KESULITAN KEMAMPUAN PEMECAHAN MASALAH MATEMATIS DITINJAU DARI KEMAMPUAN DISPOSISI MATEMATIS SISWA

The purpose of this study was to study and analyze students' problems in problem-solving skills seen from their mathematical disposition level of the students on 12th grade class of SMA IT Fithrah Insani. Method of this study is descriptive- qualitative research. From 35 students, there were three students taken as samples, consisting of a student with high disposition mathematical ability (T), a student with medium disposition mathematical ability (S), and a student with low disposition mathematical ability (R). The result of the study shows that there is a difference in the average score of students in each level of the mathematical disposition towards the conclusion of the students’ mathematical problem-solving ability test (ANOVA Test-One way). Following up on these differences, researchers identified student achievement and misconceptions on each mathematical problem-solving indicators. The results of the study show that all the student with high and medium disposition mathematical ability could not fulfill the indicators of the ability of mathematical problem solving, such as (1) understand the problem, (2) recheck the answer while all the student with low disposition mathematical ability could not fulfill all indicator of the ability of mathematical problem solving.

Decision-making styles, anxiety levels, and critical thinking levels of nurses.

AbstractAimThis research was carried out so as to reveal the relationships between the anxiety state of nurses, their critical thinking disposition, and decision‐making strategies.MethodsSurvey forms and scales that were related to demographic attributes, anxiety, critical thinking and decision‐making were used in this research. The sampling was formed with 326 nurses who were selected by using the random sampling method. The data were collected between November, 2014 and January, 2015 via a Descriptive Information Form, the California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory, State–Trait Anxiety Inventory, and Decision‐Making Strategies Scale.ResultsOf the nurses, 91.4% were discovered to have low critical thinking disposition levels. The nurses’ scores in analytics, open‐mindedness, and curiosity were higher, compared to the other categories. As for decision‐making, independent decision‐making was the most commonly used strategy. There was a poor positive relationship between the age of the nurses and their points of independent decision‐making and intuitive decision‐making. It was detected that age and open‐mindedness affected the total points of independent decision‐making, intuitive decision‐making, and rational decision‐making.ConclusionThe critical thinking training of nurses affects their rational decision‐making levels and their age affects independent, intuitive, and rational decision‐making. Systematicity affects only indecision in a negative way, whereas open‐mindedness negatively affects intuitive decision‐making, rational decision‐making, and indecision. Anxiety negatively affects independent decision‐making, whereas it affects indecision strategy positively. The working style of nurses does not affect their decision‐making strategies. Indecision strategy is negatively predicted by open‐mindedness, systematicity, and self‐confidence and it is positively predicted by anxiety.

Female Students

We have conducted the first-ever study of female and male Afghan university students about entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education. Students at this new university in Afghanistan provided data on their intentions, entrepreneurial disposition, perceptions about the university role, and their beliefs about barriers and motives to entrepreneurship. &#x0D; On the one hand, we find significant differences between women and men in disposition and intentions, with women having lower levels of disposition and intentions. On the other hand, the two groups display remarkably similar views of the importance of numerous entrepreneurship motives and barriers. They also feel the same about the positive university support of their entrepreneurship interests. &#x0D; In other words, although young Afghan women and men appear to feel different about themselves and their plans, they hold relatively similar views on the reasons for entrepreneurship, the impediments to entrepreneurship, and the potential of university education and support to foster entrepreneurship in both sexes.