Investigating Factors Affecting Students' Entrepreneurial Intention, The Case of Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources

The purpose of this study was investigating factors affecting studentschr('39') entrepreneurial intention in Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. The research method was descriptive. The statistical population was 390 final year undergraduate students in all active fields of the University. Using Krejcie and Morgan table and stratified random sampling method with assignment, 196 students were selected as the research sample. The data collection tool was a questionnaire whose validity was confirmed by the opinion of University specialists and its reliability for different parts of the questionnaire was obtained using Cronbachchr('39')s alpha coefficient between 0.607 and 0.903. SPSS software was used for data analysis. The results showed that there is a significant difference between the respondents in terms of entrepreneurial intention in terms of gender, participation in entrepreneurship training courses, work experience and having a freelance job. The results of correlation test showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between family income and motherchr('39')s literacy with entrepreneurial intention. The results of path analysis showed that the most effective variables on entrepreneurial intention were self-efficacy variable with direct effect of 0.516, attitude variable with direct effect of 0.319 and entrepreneurship knowledge variable with indirect effect of 0.209, respectively.