EFFECT OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION ON ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION OF BUSINESS EDUCATION STUDENTS: THE ROLES OF PASSION AND CREATIVITY

Abstract

of entrepreneurship education in higher education institutions to facilitation readiness for work or become entrepreneurs among fresh graduates. Drawing on theory of planned behaviour, this study explores the effect of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intentions of business education students. The study also explored the mediating roles of entrepreneurial passion and creativity in the relation. As a cross-sectional survey, data was collected from 165 final year students of Business Education from the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, using scales that measure the constructs of the study. Applying path analytical model based on structural equation modelling (SEM), data were anylyzed to explore direct and indirect effects. Findings reveal that entrepreneurial education has a direct and positive relationship with entrepreneurial intention, such that entrepreneurial passion and creativity mediated the model. Hence, indirect relationship between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention was found via passion and creativity. The implications of the findings are discussed.