The Influence of Entrepreneurship Education on Students’ Social Entrepreneurship Competence: The Mediating Role of Self-Efficacy

Abstract

Indonesian university students have a low level of social entrepreneurship education, but have the highest perceptions of entrepreneurial skills and networks among young people in Asia and the Asia Pacific. Entrepreneurial vision, especially social entrepreneurship, needs to be explored by analyzing the mediating role of self-efficacy in the influence of entrepreneurship education on social entrepreneurship competency. A quantitative-explanatory research design purposively sampled 150 students from six universities who had completed five semesters and entrepreneurship courses. The university students completed the researcher-developed entrepreneurship education scale, the Indonesian version of the Generalized Self-Efficacy Scales, and the Profile of the Social Entrepreneur. Variable data were analyzed using structural equation modelling (SEM). The research findings indicate that entrepreneurship education directly influences social entrepreneurship competency; entrepreneurship education does not influence self-efficacy, and self-efficacy does not influence social entrepreneurship competency. Self-efficacy thus does not mediate the influence of entrepreneurship education on social entrepreneurship competency.