The effect of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intention with the role of mediator of entrepreneurial passion and moderator of entrepreneurial vigilance

Mousavi Fard, Seyed Reza; Naderi, Nader

doi:10.22069/jead.2025.23058.1873

The effect of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intention with the role of mediator of entrepreneurial passion and moderator of entrepreneurial vigilance

Authors

¹ University of Applied Science and Technology, Industrial Management Organization, Kermanshah, Iran.

² Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, Faculty of Social Sciences, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran

10.22069/jead.2025.23058.1873

Abstract

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the effect of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intention with the role of mediator of entrepreneurial passion and moderator of entrepreneurial vigilance. The statistical population was researchers in the agricultural field of Razi University of Kermanshah in the academic year 1402-1403. The statistical population was 1550 people, and the sample size was 308 people selected using the Morgan table using the simple random sampling method. The data collection method was fieldwork and the required tool was the use of a questionnaire. The data analysis method was descriptive statistics and structural equation modeling using two softwares, Spss26 and Amos24. The findings showed that entrepreneurship education responds to 58 percent of entrepreneurial intention. Entrepreneurship education predicts 61 percent of changes resulting from entrepreneurial passion, and finally entrepreneurial passion responds to 10 percent of changes resulting from entrepreneurial intention. The results of the Sobel test showed that the mediating role of entrepreneurial passion between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention was examined. Also, entrepreneurial awareness as a moderating role after being added to entrepreneurship education was found to have a 43% effect on entrepreneurial intention. The results showed that entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial passion are influential factors on entrepreneurial intention. Also, entrepreneurial awareness with a moderating role strengthens and improves entrepreneurial intention. It is suggested that specialized entrepreneurship education is an efficient tool in executive universities so that students become familiar with the concepts of entrepreneurship and want entrepreneurship to arise in them.

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