Dr. Hamideh Maleksaeidi, Dr. Arman Bakhshi Jahromi, Dr. Nozar Monfared,
Volume 5, Issue 9 (4-2018)
Abstract
The present study, which is a cross-sectional survey, was conducted to investigate the views of the farmers who had received the facilities provided by the Agricultural Bank on their self-efficacy in using these facilities and factors affecting it. The statistical population of the study consisted of 205 farmers who were introduced by Jihad Agriculture Organization of Bushehr Province during the year 1391 to the Agricultural Bank for receiving loan in order to implement agricultural projects. Using Krejcie and Morgan Table, 132 farmers were selected as the sample of study. The finding showed that most of farmers were old with low level of education. Also, the results indicated most of farmers don’t consider themselves as a successful and entrepreneur individual. In addition, there was a significant difference between two groups of farmers (who have the sense of self-efficacy and who have not the sense of self-efficacy) about variables education level, the extent of land and level of communication with specialists and various organizations.
Arefeh Pourvaei, Dr Mohammad Reza Mahboobi, Dr Mohammad Sharif Sharifzadeh,
Volume 7, Issue 14 (12-2020)
Abstract
The purpose of this study was investigating factors affecting students' entrepreneurial intention in Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. The research method was descriptive. The statistical population was 390 final year undergraduate students in all active fields of the University. Using Krejcie and Morgan table and stratified random sampling method with assignment, 196 students were selected as the research sample. The data collection tool was a questionnaire whose validity was confirmed by the opinion of University specialists and its reliability for different parts of the questionnaire was obtained using Cronbach's alpha coefficient between 0.607 and 0.903. SPSS software was used for data analysis. The results showed that there is a significant difference between the respondents in terms of entrepreneurial intention in terms of gender, participation in entrepreneurship training courses, work experience and having a freelance job. The results of correlation test showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between family income and mother's literacy with entrepreneurial intention. The results of path analysis showed that the most effective variables on entrepreneurial intention were self-efficacy variable with direct effect of 0.516, attitude variable with direct effect of 0.319 and entrepreneurship knowledge variable with indirect effect of 0.209, respectively.
