Effect of Attitude and Family Role as Mediating Variable between Entrepreneurship Education and Entrepreneurship Intentions

The purpose of this study is to examine the mediating role of attitude and family among business graduates of public and private universities. The number of unemployed graduates is increasing day by day in the country and only the choice is to enhance entrepreneurship intentions among students through entrepreneurship education. Because of its significance and importance to a nation's economic development, the continued focus of research work in recent years is on the development of entrepreneurial intentions through entrepreneurial education. The data was collected through a structured questionnaire by using a quantitative research design. Respondents were reached with the questionnaire by using a convenience sampling technique. The data was analyzed through the latest version of Smart PLS 3.2.9 in which modeling technique was applied to 321 responses. The findings of this research revealed that all three constructs of entrepreneurial education influence significantly attitude and family roles. Besides, attitude and family roles has a significant relationship with entrepreneurship intentions. Attitude and family role as a mediator reflects that students’ intention is positively influenced. The research originality reposes in revealing insight into the entrepreneurship education practices at two different levels, the first is the role of higher education institutes in developing attitude towards such practice through which students become more likely to be an entrepreneur and the second is the role of family or family-owned businesses no matter at what level the business is running, but the need is to develop behaviors towards novelty of being an entrepreneur as the majority of responses falls into to start own business or to run the family business.