Personality Traits: The Mediating Role of Self Efficacy to Improve Entrepreneurial Intention
Year: 2018
Type: conference-paper
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This research did to prove self efficacy to
mediate the strengthening of personality in realizing the interest
of the employees to create and manage their own business.
Researcher identified entrepreneurial intention as a prediction
of personality traits on star hotel employees in Bali, identify
personality traits prediction to self-efficacy on star hotel
employees in Bali, identifying entrepreneurial intention as a
prediction of self-efficacy on star hotel employees in Bali,
analyzing the role of self efficacy in mediating the impact of
personality traits on entrepreneurial intention. The study was
conducted on star hotel employees in Bali with the number of
151 respondents. The questionnaire returned as 130 with a
response rate of 86.09%. Respondents selected by purposive
sampling method that was hotel employees who have worked
between 5 to 10 years. Each research instrument uses Likert
scale measurement. Initial evaluation was done by estimated
outer model evaluation or measurement model that is validity
and reliability of each reflective construct. Next is the
evaluation of structural model (inner model) for testing the
research model using WarpPLS 4.0 program. The significance
of the parameter is determined by resampling bootstraping and
using 500 sub-samples of size equal to that of the original
sample. Results and discussion show that the results of
hypothesis testing shows the personality traits of star hotel
employees in Bali can significantly influence and increase
entrepreneurial intention. The personality traits of star hotel
employees in Bali can significantly influence and improve self
efficacy. The self efficacy of star hotel employees in Bali can
increase significant entrepreneurial intention. Testing
hypothesis 4 indicates that self efficacy is able to mediate the
influence of personality traits of star hotel employees in Bali
towards entrepreneurial intention significantly. The mediation
variables in this study indicates that the value of self efficacy is
included in the category as a partial mediation variable.
Author: Ida Ketut Kusumawijaya
Language: English
Subfield: Management of Technology and Innovation
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2951855331