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An empirical investigation on the relationship between individual traits and entrepreneurial business intentions: measuring a mediation effect of entrepreneurial self-efficacy through partial least squares structural equation modeling

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Human psychology and the embryological cycle are synonymous with business start-ups and its later phases and stages. To explore the linkage between human and business, this paper examines the empirical investigation on the relationship between individual traits and entrepreneurial business intentions with the mediation effect of entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Drawing on a field survey of 259 international students from five Jiangsu province universities of China, using convenience sampling technique, this study provides evidence for the argument that entrepreneurial education, emotional intelligence, need for cognition, proactive personality, and rebelliousness has a positive impact on entrepreneurial self-efficacy expect risk-taking propensity has negative and insignificant impact on entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Moreover, this study found that entrepreneurial education, emotional intelligence, the need for cognition, and rebelliousness has a positive impact on entrepreneurial business intentions expect proactive personality and risk-taking propensity has a negative and insignificant impact on entrepreneurial business intentions. Furthermore, this study provides evidence that entrepreneurial self-efficacy has a mediation effect between entrepreneurial educations, emotional intelligence, the need for cognition, proactive personality, rebelliousness, and entrepreneurial business intentions. Entrepreneurial self-efficacy has no mediation effect between risk-taking propensity and entrepreneurial business intentions. The findings shed light on the mechanism that individual traits contribute an immense role to the literature on the key components of the entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial business intentions among students.

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Project Funds: [1] Self -organized cluster entrepreneurship behavior reform, evolution, and promotion strategies study (No.16BGL028), China National Social Science Foundation; [2] Study on Bottleneck and Innovation of Postindustrial Intellectual capital development in Jiangsu Province (No.14JD009), Jiangsu Province Social Science Foundation Project. [3] Perception of fairness in self-organized mass Entrepreneurship (No.4061160023).

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Majid and Professor Cai Li conceived the study, edited the data, performed the analysis and interpretation, and drafted skeleton of the manuscript and critically review the manuscript. Hassnain Javed, Saba Fazal Firdousi and Sheikh Farhan Ashraf contributed to constructing the model, performing the analysis, interpretation of model results, and intensively edit the language of the manuscript. All authors approved and read the final manuscript and participated in the critical appraisal as well as revision of the manuscript.

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Li, C., Murad, M., Javed, H. et al. An empirical investigation on the relationship between individual traits and entrepreneurial business intentions: measuring a mediation effect of entrepreneurial self-efficacy through partial least squares structural equation modeling. J Glob Entrepr Res 11, 533–549 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40497-021-00303-z

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