Abstract

LAGUIA, Ana; MORIANO, Juan Antonio; MOLERO, Fernando  and  GAMEZ, Jorge Alberto. Validation of the Entrepreneurial Intention Questionnaire in a Sample of University Students from Colombia. Univ. Psychol. [online]. 2017, vol.16, n.1, pp.60-73. ISSN 1657-9267.  https://doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.upsy16-1.vcie.

This paper presents the validation of the Entrepreneurial Intention Questionnaire (EIQ) in Colombia. This questionnaire, developed and validated in Spain (Rueda, Moriano, & Linân, 2015), draws on the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB, Ajzen, 1991). The TPB is the most widely used model for predicting entrepreneurial intention nowadays. With a sample of 316 Colombian university students, the results of the structural equation modeling confirm that the EIQ has a high reliability and predictive validity of entrepreneurial intentions. The availability of reliable measurement scales validated in different cultural contexts allows comparisons among institutions and/or within an institution along the time (e.g. before and after a course on entrepreneurship). A deep understanding of the psychosocial antecedents (i.e. attitudes toward entrepreneurship, subjective norms, and entrepreneurial self-efficacy) that lead young university students to become entrepreneurs might contribute to a better design of the entrepreneurship education programmes that are being developed from universities and other institutions.

Keywords : entrepreneurship; entrepreneurial intention; attitude; subjective norms; self-efficacy; theory of planned behaviour (TPB).

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