مجلة الأصيل للبحوث الاقتصادية والإدارية

The Effect Of Entrepreneurial Skills Development, Motivation, And Barriers On Entrepreneurial Intention Among University Students - A Case Study Of A Sample Of Students From The Faculty Of Economics At Souk Ahras University

Auteurs : Tlaidjia Tayeb .

Résumé

What drives the entrepreneurial intention of university students in a regional Algerian setting — and what holds it back? Grounded in the Theory of Planned Behavior, this study tests the joint effect of entrepreneurial skills development, motivation, and perceived barriers among 255 students at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Souk Ahras. Data come from an online questionnaire adapted from Liñán and Chen (2009), analyzed in Jamovi. The three predictors explain 45% of the variance in intention (R² = 0.45, p < 0.001): skills development leads (β = 0.47), then motivation (β = 0.41), while barriers weigh against it more modestly (β = −0.19). No gender difference emerged (p = 0.205), contrary to much earlier work, whereas intention rose with age and academic level. Planning and organization was the weakest skill dimension — entrepreneurship education here needs less inspiration and more structured, practice-based competence building.

Mots clés

Entrepreneurial intention ; entrepreneurial skills ; entrepreneurial motivation ; perceived barriers ; Theory of Planned Behavior; Algeria