فهرست مطالب shirin golbaz

Subjective norms are recognized to be one of the main factors influencing individuals’ behavior. The purpose of this study was to investigate factors affecting grape farmers’ subjective norms regarding the utilization of innovations for improving and reforming their vineyards. The study was conducted in the Khoramdared Township, located in the Zanjan Province of Iran using a cross-sectional and descriptive-explanatory research design. The data were collected using a questionnaire through structured interviews with a sample of 260 out of 3942 grape farmers, who were randomly selected by a multi-stage sampling technique. The face and content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by a panel of experts and the construct validity and reliability were tested using the Categorical Principle Component Analysis method. Moreover, the Theta Coefficient for the reliability test of different constructs was obtained between 0.75 and 0.96. The subjective norms for using this innovation tended to be high, but it was higher for the farmers who were covered by the government’s orchard improving plan. Farmers’ subjective norms for adopting this innovation were explained by various factors in that 58 percent of the variance of the subjective norm construct was determined directly and indirectly by the variables of farmers' attitude towards the relative advantage of this innovation, attending extension training courses, informal information sources inside and outside their rural communities, governmental interventions in terms of being covered by orchard improving plan, trust to the information of specialists, household size, farmers' age, grape production yield.

The main purpose of this research was to study affecting factors on students’ entrepreneurial intention with emphasis on mediating effect of attitude toward entrepreneurial behavior. The statistical population of the research contained of all M.Sc. students in agriculture faculty of Zanjan University in 2015- 2016 academic year (N=489). According to Bartlett et al. (2001) table, a sample size of 220 was selected using a stratified random sampling method (n=220). Data were collected using the standard questionnaires (after adjusting the questions with the field of research). Content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by a panel of experts. Construct validity and composite reliability of the research instrument were tested by estimating the measurement model and they were satisfactory after making necessary corrections. Data was analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) multivariate technique and the Bootstrapping method was used for testing mediating effect. The results showed that two variable of perceived behavior control (ρ-value=0.001, β=0.808) and social norms (ρ-value=0.001, β=0.374) had a positive and significant effect on students’ entrepreneurial intention. In addition to this, the results indicated that sum of indirect effect of perceived behavior control (ρ-value=0.001, β=0.237) and social norms (ρ-value=0.001, β=0.210) on students’ entrepreneurial intention through the variable of attitude toward entrepreneurial behavior was significant and the three the variables explained 64 percent of variances of the students’ entrepreneurial intention.

The main purpose of this research was to study the effect of learning orientation and work passion on agricultural students’ entrepreneurial intention. The statistical population consisted of all M.Sc. students in agriculture faculty of Zanjan University in 2015- 2016 academic year (N=489). According to Bartlett table, a sample size of 220 was determined and randomly selected using a stratified sampling method with proportional allocation (n=220). Data were collected using the standard questionnaires (after adjusting the questions with the field of research). Content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by a panel of experts. Construct validity and composite reliability of the research instrument were tested by estimating the measurement model and sustained after making necessary corrections. The data were processed using SPSSwin20 and AMOS20, then analyzed through Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The results indicated that majority of students’ entrepreneurial intention was at low and medium levels. Also, the results showed that learning orientation and work passion had a positive and significant effect on students’ entrepreneurial intention explaining about 61 percent of its variances.

Identifying the skills required in the labor market for graduates and strengthening them will have major role in increasing their access to employment opportunities. The purpose of this study was to measure occupational empowerment of agricultural graduates and mechanisms for strengthening it. Agricultural graduate students in Zanjan University formed the research population (n=101). The validity of the questionnaire was approved by a panel of academic experts. Pre-test and calculating Cronbach's alpha coefficients were used to measure the reliability (0.87 - 0.94). The results showed that the average score of occupational empowerment of respondents was 7.04 out of 20 indicating weakness of situation. Using exploratory factor analysis, strategies for improving occupational empowerment of agricultural graduates were summarized to seven factors including: increasing government support, increasing relationship between the university and Agricultural Ministry, making structural changes in education, vocational training during study, making changes in educational content, changing in accepting students practices and revising curriculum. 64% of the total variance of strategies for improving occupational empowerment was explained by these seven factors.