Examining the emerging entrepreneurial mindset in adolescence: A study in Nigeria

What is it about?

This study examined the effects of family environment,networks,parental socio-economic status,and proactive personality on secondary school adolescents' entrepreneurial intention in Nigeria and the mediating role of self-efficacy in the effects.The study showed that the predicting factors had significant effects on entrepreneurial intention and that self-efficacy partially mediated the effects in short,self-efficacy contributed to the process by which the predicting factors exerted their effects on entrepreneurial intentions of the adolescents.

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Why is it important?

This study is unique because most previous studies on entrepreneurial intention used adult entrepreneurs or university graduates,however,this study utilised secondary school adolescents on the ground that the process of a person's vocational development toward entrepreneurial may start early in the formative years (childhood and adolescence).Another uniques of this study is that the partial mediation results obtained indicated that the pathways to entrepreneurial intention in adolescence as demonstrated in western research also apply to the African context but the socio-cultural factors in Nigeria should be considered in future research on entrepreneurial intention.