Environmental factors affecting entrepreneurial intention of senior high school students’ in San Jose, Occidental Mindoro

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the determinants of entrepreneurial intention and assess the environmental factors affecting entrepreneurial intention among SHS students in San Jose, Occidental Mindoro. The researcher used a mixed sequential exploratory method and employed statistical treatment such as Thematic analysis, Frequency & Percent Distribution, Weighted Means, Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and Beta Coefficient. The data were drawn from 293 respondents in grade 12 senior high school students of the selected three public schools in San Jose that have business subject/s in their curriculum. This study found out that feasibility and desirability are the parameters of environmental factors. The study also revealed that SHS students' entrepreneurial intentions were to a very high extent to the students' feasibility and desirability. Senior high school students' strong appreciation for the feasibility of pursuing entrepreneurial courses can be related to their realization that they have the essential skills and capability to become entrepreneurs. Furthermore, a person's willingness to pursue entrepreneurship is based on an assessment of the expectations and beliefs that he will get from it. Based on the findings, the study concludes that the students' ability to lead others is related to their understanding that they have necessary abilities and competence to become entrepreneurs. Therefore, this study recommends to the educational leaders of public schools that they continue to nourish their students' minds on what they want to be. Also, educational authorities may utilize the proposed action plan to effectively increase senior high school students' entrepreneurial intention in terms of feasibility and desirability.

Environmental Factors in Affecting Student Entrepreneurship Decision

“…The internal environment which can be measured by competence, socio-economic conditions of the family and family has a significant positive effect on entrepreneurial decisions. The results of this research are relevant to the study Galay et al, (2023) that a person's competence is an internal environmental factor that empirically influences entrepreneurial decisions. Competence in this research can be built from formal and nonformal educational institutions.…”

“…Considering that entrepreneurship can contribute positively to the national economy (Khamimah, 2021) in increasing national income (GDP) (Fajri, 2021), it is necessary to accelerate entrepreneurship development in Indonesia (Darojah et al, 2018) by understanding and recognizing environmental factors that empirically influence the decisions of university students and alumni to become entrepreneurs (Budiyono & Setyawasih, 2017;Bugawa & Aljuwaisri, 2019;Galay et al, 2023;Lucky & Ibrahim, 2015;Peng et al, 2021;Sulastri et al, 2021). In fact, these internal and external environmental factors can improve the performance of small businesses, where it is explicitly explained that partially the external environment has a positive and significant influence on business partnerships, and the internal environment also has a significant positive influence (Suryana et al, 2017).…”