مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - AN INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECTS OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS SELF-EFFICACY PERCEPTIONS AND ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATIONS ON THEIR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP TENDENCIES

Abstract :

With the development of economic and social life, the concept of social entrepreneurship become more important and has an expanding application field. In this study, the importance of social entrepreneurship has been put forth with current examples. Then, as they are presumed as social entrepreneur candidates, the effects of self-efficacy perceptions, achievement motivations and demographic features of undergraduate students on their social entrepreneur tendencies have been examined. According to the findings, in terms of social vision dimension, women and social science students have greater social entrepreneurship tendencies than men and natural science students respectively. In terms of financial returns dimension, men and those who have entrepreneurship parent have greater social entrepreneurship tendencies than women and those who haven’t respectively. There are not any effects of having entrepreneur relative or parent, having civil association experience and time of civil association experience on social entrepreneurship tendencies. While the self-efficacy perception of individuals affects only the financial returns dimension of social entrepreneurship tendencies, it has been came out that, achievement motivation dimension affects on sustainability, innovativeness and social vision dimensions of social entrepreneurship tendencies.