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Table 1.2 Direct Impact of the Re-specified Model: Standardized Regression Weights
Std.
Endogenous Exogenous Reg. S.E. C.R. P Remark
Weight
Attitude Non-significant
<--- Curriculum 0.178 0.105 1.632 0.103
towards goals
Teaching Non-significant
Family roles <--- 0.127 0.170 0.851 0.395
methodologies
Attitude Significant
<--- University role 0.567 0.133 4.862 0.000
towards goals
Family roles <--- University role 0.771 0.259 4.451 0.000 Significant
Entrepreneurial Significant
<--- Family role -0.218 0.051 -2.908 0.004
intentions
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H4 Attitude towards goals has a positive relationship path analysis have been used. The factor loadings of the
with entrepreneurial intentions. nineteen items in the study have been analysed with the
standard regression weights to calculate the square
H5 Family roles have a positive relationship with multiple correlations. The five hypotheses developed for
entrepreneurial intentions. the study have been tested. The exogenous variables of
curricula, teaching methodologies and university roles
The square multiple correlations (SMC) show the level have been tested through the mediating effects of
of contribution (adjusted R) of each dimension to the attitude towards goals and family roles and the results
entrepreneurship education variable. The square multiple showed that three of the hypotheses H3, H4 and H5 are
correlations (SMC) show the level of contribution positively significant, whereas H1 is partially significant
(adjusted R) of each dimension to the mediating and H2 as negatively significant. The square multiple
variables, attitude towards goals (=0.694), family roles correlations the (adjusted R) of each dimension of the
(=0.39) and entrepreneurial intentions (=0.059). The entrepreneurship education variable to the mediating
mediating variable has contributed 69.4% variance of variables shows the results as attitude towards goals
attitude towards goals indicating that attitude towards (=0.694), family roles (=0.39) and entrepreneurial
goals has medium level of contribution to the structural intentions (=0.059). The mediating variable has
model The mediating variable has contributed 39% contributed 69.4% variance of attitude towards goals
variance of family roles indicating that family roles have indicating that it has a medium level of contribution to
a medium level of contribution to the structural model. the structural model. The mediating variable has
The endogenous variable of entrepreneurial intentions contributed 39% variance of family roles indicating that
has contributed 5.9% variance indicating that family roles have a medium level of contribution to the
entrepreneurial intentions have a very low level of structural model. The endogenous variable of
contribution to the structural model. (Hair et al., 2014; entrepreneurial intentions has contributed 5.95%
Cohen & Cohen 1983). variance indicating that entrepreneurial intentions have a
low level of contribution to the structural model and that
The interaction effect using re-specified model was it is not significant to the study. There are some
conducted to confirm the significant relationships limitations to the study for testing the dependent variable
between attitude towards goals, family roles and of entrepreneurial intentions against the independent
entrepreneurial intentions. The significant level of factor variable of entrepreneurship educcation, and mediating
loadings interaction between variables confirmed the variables of attitude and stakeholder support systems.
mediating effect of attitude towards goals and family The study was limited to these variables only. It also
roles in the relationship between entrepreneurship included only four entrepreneurship-focused universities
education and entrepreneurial intentions. It shows the in Malaysia. The methodology used was a survey
mediating effect of the variables attitude towards goals questionnaire method and the research attempted to
and family roles in the structural model. Square multiple predict their entrepreneurial intentions based on the
correlations (SMC) show 5.9% of entrepreneurial questions in the survey questionnaire, therefore the study
intentions with the entrepreneurial intentions could be is limited to only the survey research method only. The
explained through the mediating effect of attitude sample might have been underrepresented as there were
towards goals and family roles. According to Cohen and foreign students pursuing the entrepreneurship courses in
Cohen (1983), if the influence predicts more than 40%, the universities. The students surveyed were only from
the study has confirmed the indication is able and business and information technology students pursuing
significant to figure the phenomena. In this the result of entrepreneurship courses and the study did not take into
SMC which shows 5.9% of entrepreneurial intentions is account of students pursuing other courses but with
not significant to the study. entrepreneurial intentions. It is a cross-sectional study
and not a longitudinal study. Students intentions may
IV- CONCLUSION
vary from time to time, so a longitudinal study is
The paper discusses the data analysis of testing the suggested for further research.
hypotheses using structural equation modeling (SEM).
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