Determinants of Students Entrepreneurial Intentions in North Sulawesi: A Study of Personality and Contextual Aspects

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the existence of positive significant needs for achievements, self-efficacy, education support, relational and structural support toward students' entrepreneurial intentions in North Sulawesi. Population is the whole college students in North Sulawesi and the sample is amounted to 150 college students. The sampling technique used 2 parts questionnaire, firstly part contains the respondents characteristics and secondly contains parts that each of which has six (6) statements. Each statement is measured with the Likert scale, which consist as follow: strongly agree for 7, agree for 6, somewhat agree for 5, neutral for 4, somewhat disagree for 3, disagree for 2 and strongly disagree for 1.Sampling technique used the multi-stage sampling method, whereas in choosing college sampling, the researcher used convenient sampling technique and the accidental sampling technique in selecting students' samples. This research used descriptive quantitative technique for data analysis while for quantitative analysis, a multiple regression technique is used. A descriptive analysis technique is used to describe the condition if each of the research variables. The result shows that the self-efficacy, relational and structural supports had a significantly positive effect toward the entrepreneurial intention for college students in North Sulawesi. In turn, the needs for achievements and educational support, both, had negatively non significant toward the students' entrepreneurial intension.