Factors Effecting Rural Youth Attitudes toward Entrepreneurship;Mashhadbylo, Iran

One of the most important challenges in rural development is rural youth unemployment. Entrepreneurship as a new movement، can handle the problem among rural youth. Thus، investigating entrepreneurship among rural youth can help to rural development agents understand this issue in rural communities. Analysis of factors effecting entrepreneurial attitudes of rural youth were the main purpose of this study. Rural youth (the age of 20 to 34) in Mashhadbylo village in Fars Province were 1034 who provided the statistical population of this research from this 136 youth was determined as research sample by Cochran formula. A researcher made questionnaire was implemented to collect data. Validity of this questionnaire was confirmed by a panel of experts. Cronbach alpha was ranged from α=0. 74، 0. 93. Rural youth were classified in four groups based on the level of their response to the dependent variable (entrepreneurial attitude). Analyzing independent variables; direct and indirect effects on the dependent variable were determined by path analysis. Showed، 35. 1% of entrepreneurial attitude variance was explained by independent variables. According to the findings، the subjective norms variable had the highest effect on entrepreneurial attitude of rural youth.