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- Title
Empreendedorismo no ensino superior: Estudo psicométrico da escala Oportunidades e Recursos para Empreender.
- Authors
Dinis Parreira, Pedro Miguel Santos; de Carvalho, Carla Maria Santos; dos Santos Mónico, Lisete; de Oliveira Pereira Santos, Ana Sofia Marques
- Abstract
Entrepreneurship can be defined as an attempt to launch new projects, create self-employment opportunities, or expand existing businesses. There are multiple entrepreneurship measurement scales; however, most of them are aimed at corporate evaluation. This study intends to analyze the psychometric properties of the Opportunities and Resources for Entrepreneurship scale in a sample of university students, focusing on factors that influence entrepreneurial behaviors. The sample consisted of 6,532 polytechnic university students. The sample was randomly divided into two equal-sized groups. An exploratory factor analysis was run using one subgroup, from which four factors emerged: F1-Resource Availability, F2-Business Stability, F3-Economic and Political Instability, and F4-Business Opportunities. A confirmatory factor analysis was then done using the other subgroup, which showed acceptable goodness- of-fit levels. This study demonstrated the psychometric robustness of the instrument under analysis, as well as that students perceive environmental factors as important variables that promote entrepreneurship in Portugal.
- Publication
Revista Psicologia. Organizacoes e Trabalho, 2017, Vol 17, Issue 4, p269
- ISSN
1518-5923
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17652/rpot/2017.4.13736