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. 2022 Jun 1:13:864226.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.864226. eCollection 2022.

Research on the Influence Mechanism of Agricultural Entrepreneurship: Evidence From Five Provinces in Western China

Hao Dong  1   2 , Bo Wang  1   2 , Panpan Zhang  1   2 , Ximeng Chen  3 , Jichang Han  1   2
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Research on the Influence Mechanism of Agricultural Entrepreneurship: Evidence From Five Provinces in Western China

Hao Dong et al. Front Psychol. .

Abstract

Individual entrepreneurial behaviors will be affected by their attitudes and environmental factors. Therefore, entrepreneurial attitude and entrepreneurial environment interpret the entrepreneurial behavior mechanism of farmers from the perspectives of internal and external factors. This manuscript is based on a survey data of farmers in five western provinces in China. Using structural equation modeling, the mechanism of the effects of farmers' entrepreneurial attitudes and entrepreneurial environment on entrepreneurial behavior was analyzed empirically. The research results show that individual entrepreneurial attitudes and the external entrepreneurial environment cannot directly affect entrepreneurial behavior, and both will be through entrepreneurial self-efficacy. The sense of entrepreneurship indirectly affects entrepreneurial behavior, and entrepreneurial self-efficacy plays an intermediary role. The "entrepreneurial behavior structure" model proposed in this manuscript points out that cultivating entrepreneurial attitudes and creating an entrepreneurial environment cannot directly promote entrepreneurial behavior of farmers, but must stimulate farmers' entrepreneurial behavior. The sense of self-efficacy provides a direction for the promotion of policy formulation and practical guidance for farmers' entrepreneurship.

Keywords: entrepreneurial attitude; entrepreneurial behavior; entrepreneurial environment; entrepreneurial self-efficacy; structural equation model.

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Conflict of interest statement

HD, BW, PZ, and JH were employed by Shaanxi Provincial Land Engineering Construction Group Co., Ltd. The remaining author declares that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Conceptual model.
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Structural equation model path diagram. *** means significant at the 0.001 level.
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Structural model of entrepreneurial behavior.
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