The Influence of Family Background, Psychology and Perceived University Support Towards Self-Employment Intention among Public University Students in Malaysia
Purpose: The current economic situation with increasing unemployment among graduates is ever important. The government of Malaysia has been promoting the entrepreneurship education among university students to overcome this problem. However, for this program to be effective, it is pertinent to loo...
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Auricle Global Society of Education and Research
2023
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/42752/3/The%20Influence.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/42752/ https://jrtdd.com/index.php/journal/article/view/1360 |
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| Summary: | Purpose: The current economic situation with increasing unemployment among graduates is ever important. The
government of Malaysia has been promoting the entrepreneurship education among university students to
overcome this problem. However, for this program to be effective, it is pertinent to look at the demand side of this program, the student’s and their intentions towards being self-employed.
Design/Methodology/Approach: A set of questionnaires with five-point Likert scale was distributed to 320
respondents from 5 public universities in Malaysia via internet and mail. SPSS was used to analyze the results.
Results and analyses were derived by multiple regression analysis and the hypothesis were testing using the
Pearson’s correlation matrix.
Findings: The multiple regression result shown that there is no significant relationship between family
background (the significance is p = 0.493 or p>0.05), and perceived university support (value of p= 0.228) towards
self-employment intention.
Research Practical and Social Implications: Therefore, the importance of this study is to investigate the
influence of family background (FB) and perceived university support (PUS) on the self-employment intention
among public university students in Malaysia.
Originality/Value: This study focused only on two variables only. Further studies with other variables can be
tested to obtain significant results. |
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