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Attitude of youth towards self-employment: Evidence from university students in Yemen
This study assesses whether final-year undergraduate students at Sana’a University, Yemen intend to start their own business. The study employs the theory of planned behaviour and two environmental factors to explore whether the theory’s behavioural factors and the contextual factors of Lüthje &...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8437303/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34516592 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257358 |
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author | Al-Qadasi, Nabil Zhang, Gongyi Al-Jubari, Ibrahim |
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description | This study assesses whether final-year undergraduate students at Sana’a University, Yemen intend to start their own business. The study employs the theory of planned behaviour and two environmental factors to explore whether the theory’s behavioural factors and the contextual factors of Lüthje & Franke’s model have an impact on students’ intentions to start their own business. A questionnaire survey with a random sample of 335 final-year university students from the largest public university in Yemen has been conducted. Data has been analysed using descriptive statistics, Pearson’s correlation and structural equation modelling. The findings indicate that students’ perceptions of entrepreneurship have a strong, direct impact on self-employment intention, excluding social norms and entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Students’ self-employment intention is directly affected by perceived barriers and support factors in the entrepreneurship-related context. To increase their entrepreneurial abilities, university students require more training and education to be able to start new businesses. Developing entrepreneurial skills among citizens may improve the societal norms of business. The outcomes provide significant implications for policymakers, academic communities and international bodies. |
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spelling | pubmed-84373032021-09-14 Attitude of youth towards self-employment: Evidence from university students in Yemen Al-Qadasi, Nabil Zhang, Gongyi Al-Jubari, Ibrahim PLoS One Research Article This study assesses whether final-year undergraduate students at Sana’a University, Yemen intend to start their own business. The study employs the theory of planned behaviour and two environmental factors to explore whether the theory’s behavioural factors and the contextual factors of Lüthje & Franke’s model have an impact on students’ intentions to start their own business. A questionnaire survey with a random sample of 335 final-year university students from the largest public university in Yemen has been conducted. Data has been analysed using descriptive statistics, Pearson’s correlation and structural equation modelling. The findings indicate that students’ perceptions of entrepreneurship have a strong, direct impact on self-employment intention, excluding social norms and entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Students’ self-employment intention is directly affected by perceived barriers and support factors in the entrepreneurship-related context. To increase their entrepreneurial abilities, university students require more training and education to be able to start new businesses. Developing entrepreneurial skills among citizens may improve the societal norms of business. The outcomes provide significant implications for policymakers, academic communities and international bodies. Public Library of Science 2021-09-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8437303/ /pubmed/34516592 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257358 Text en © 2021 Al-Qadasi et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Al-Qadasi, Nabil Zhang, Gongyi Al-Jubari, Ibrahim Attitude of youth towards self-employment: Evidence from university students in Yemen |
title | Attitude of youth towards self-employment: Evidence from university students in Yemen |
title_full | Attitude of youth towards self-employment: Evidence from university students in Yemen |
title_fullStr | Attitude of youth towards self-employment: Evidence from university students in Yemen |
title_full_unstemmed | Attitude of youth towards self-employment: Evidence from university students in Yemen |
title_short | Attitude of youth towards self-employment: Evidence from university students in Yemen |
title_sort | attitude of youth towards self-employment: evidence from university students in yemen |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8437303/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34516592 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257358 |
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