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. 2020 Aug 12:11:2045.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02045. eCollection 2020.

Exploration of Entrepreneurship Education by Linear Regression and Psychological Factor Analysis

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Exploration of Entrepreneurship Education by Linear Regression and Psychological Factor Analysis

Ke Mu et al. Front Psychol. .

Abstract

To study the improvement of the entrepreneurial performance of start-ups and achieve an organic combination of entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial performance, the entrepreneurial group of college students was taken as the springboard to discuss the entrepreneurial performance of start-ups initiated by college students. First, through questionnaire design and scale selection, the results of the questionnaire survey and the reliability and validity of the scale tool were tested. Second, the variable of college students' entrepreneurial self-efficacy based on psychological factor analysis was introduced. The correlations among entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and entrepreneurial performance were analyzed. Finally, the intermediary role of entrepreneurial self-efficacy was verified by using the hierarchical linear regression analysis method combined with the BARON three-part verification method. The results show that the response rate of the questionnaire is 92%, and the selection of research samples is scientific. The Cronbach's α reliability coefficients corresponding to each scale are all above 0.8, and the common factor variances are all above 0.7. Therefore, the reliability and validity of scale tools are good. Entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and entrepreneurial performance are significantly correlated with each other. The college students' entrepreneurial self-efficacy has a good explanatory ability and plays an intermediary role; in the entrepreneurial innovation learning dimension, its corresponding β = 0.257; in the dimension of school organizational support, the corresponding β = 0.439; in the dimension of social interaction, the corresponding β = 0.238. The results have a reference value for studying entrepreneurship education and the improvement of entrepreneurial performance from a psychological level.

Keywords: entrepreneurial innovation learning; entrepreneurial performance; entrepreneurial self-efficacy; linear regression analysis; psychological factors; school organizational support; social interaction.

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Correlations among psychological factors, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and entrepreneurial performance.
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Model construction.
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KMO and Bartlett test results. In the figure, the abscissa (A) represents entrepreneurship education, (B) represents entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and (C) represents entrepreneurial performance.
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Results of common factor variance test for each scale. In the figure, 1.1–5.5 correspond to the questions in the scale.
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Results of linear regression analysis. C-H1 in the figure represents the R2 and Adj.R2 values corresponding to entrepreneurial performance under H1; the rest may be deduced by analogy.

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