Analysis on the Influencing Factors of College Students’ Entrepreneurial Self-efficacy Based on Factor Analysis

Abstract

The relationship among proactive personality, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and career exploration was investigated among 447 college students by questionnaire survey. The results show that :(1) proactive personality is positively correlated with entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and the higher the level of proactive personality, the higher the level of entrepreneurial self-efficacy; (2) Career exploration plays a mediating role in the relationship between proactive personality and entrepreneurial self-efficacy, that is, individuals with higher level of proactive personality can improve their entrepreneurial self-efficacy through more career exploration. This study suggests that colleges and universities can select students with more proactive entrepreneurship to conduct targeted entrepreneurship education on the basis of general entrepreneurship education. In addition, entrepreneurship education can be integrated into career education, and stimulating college students' career exploration through career education can also help improve their entrepreneurial self-efficacy.