Positive Emotions and Entrepreneurial Intention: The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Cognition

Under the background of “mass entrepreneurship and innovation,” entrepreneurship and innovation for college students not only alleviates the current social employment pressure but also sets off the upsurge of their entrepreneurship. It is a significant field to research the entrepreneurial intention...

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Autores principales:	Ben-Song Chen, Chih-Hung Yuan, Bin Yin, Xiao-Zhi Wu
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Publicado:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
Materias:	positive emotions entrepreneurial cognition arrangement scripts willing scripts ability scripts entrepreneurial intention Psychology BF1-990
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:8dbd673719154bf9941dd10ee30d95642021-11-12T04:59:22ZPositive Emotions and Entrepreneurial Intention: The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Cognition1664-107810.3389/fpsyg.2021.760328https://doaj.org/article/8dbd673719154bf9941dd10ee30d95642021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.760328/fullhttps://doaj.org/toc/1664-1078Under the background of “mass entrepreneurship and innovation,” entrepreneurship and innovation for college students not only alleviates the current social employment pressure but also sets off the upsurge of their entrepreneurship. It is a significant field to research the entrepreneurial intention of undergraduates as potential entrepreneurs, which covers the study of entrepreneurial intention from the perspective of personal traits and entrepreneurial cognition. This article studies entrepreneurial intention from two aspects: irrational positive emotions and rational entrepreneurial cognition, which aims to reveal the mechanism of positive emotions and entrepreneurial cognition on entrepreneurial intention. After investigating 288 college students participating in entrepreneurial competitions, establishing structural equations, and using SmartPLS software for data analysis, the research result showed that positive emotions significantly positively impact the three scripts of entrepreneurial cognition: arrangement scripts, willing scripts, and ability scripts. The arrangement, willing, and ability scripts positively influence entrepreneurial intention, while positive emotions do not affect entrepreneurial intention. Arrangement scripts and ability scripts have a full mediating effect between positive emotions and entrepreneurial intention. Based on these findings, we provide suggestions for the government and society, schools, and individual students on innovation and entrepreneurship.Ben-Song ChenChih-Hung YuanBin YinXiao-Zhi WuFrontiers Media S.A.articlepositive emotionsentrepreneurial cognitionarrangement scriptswilling scriptsability scriptsentrepreneurial intentionPsychologyBF1-990ENFrontiers in Psychology, Vol 12 (2021)
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description	Under the background of “mass entrepreneurship and innovation,” entrepreneurship and innovation for college students not only alleviates the current social employment pressure but also sets off the upsurge of their entrepreneurship. It is a significant field to research the entrepreneurial intention of undergraduates as potential entrepreneurs, which covers the study of entrepreneurial intention from the perspective of personal traits and entrepreneurial cognition. This article studies entrepreneurial intention from two aspects: irrational positive emotions and rational entrepreneurial cognition, which aims to reveal the mechanism of positive emotions and entrepreneurial cognition on entrepreneurial intention. After investigating 288 college students participating in entrepreneurial competitions, establishing structural equations, and using SmartPLS software for data analysis, the research result showed that positive emotions significantly positively impact the three scripts of entrepreneurial cognition: arrangement scripts, willing scripts, and ability scripts. The arrangement, willing, and ability scripts positively influence entrepreneurial intention, while positive emotions do not affect entrepreneurial intention. Arrangement scripts and ability scripts have a full mediating effect between positive emotions and entrepreneurial intention. Based on these findings, we provide suggestions for the government and society, schools, and individual students on innovation and entrepreneurship.
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title	Positive Emotions and Entrepreneurial Intention: The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Cognition
title_short	Positive Emotions and Entrepreneurial Intention: The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Cognition
title_full	Positive Emotions and Entrepreneurial Intention: The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Cognition
title_fullStr	Positive Emotions and Entrepreneurial Intention: The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Cognition
title_full_unstemmed	Positive Emotions and Entrepreneurial Intention: The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Cognition
title_sort	positive emotions and entrepreneurial intention: the mediating role of entrepreneurial cognition
publisher	Frontiers Media S.A.
publishDate	2021
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Positive Emotions and Entrepreneurial Intention: The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Cognition

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