Analysis of the Agricultural Students' Entrepreneurial Intention based on Psychological Capital and Career Adaptability, Razi University

Increasing rate of unemployment among the graduates of the higher education system has been developed into one of the major socio- economic problems in Iran. One of the important strategies is to prepare students to have an entrepreneurial intention and become entrepreneurs, as a result of which entrepreneurial abilities and skills they acquire in universities can be very effective in this field. In this research, which was conducted with a quantitative paradigm and causal-relational method, the entrepreneurial intention of students was analyzed based on psychological capital and career adaptability. The statistical population was the senior bachelor agriculture students in College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Razi University in the academic year 2022-2023 (N=470), which 207 were selected based on Cochran's sampling formula with a stratified random sampling method. For data collection were used Luthans et al. (2007) Psychological Capital questionnaire, Savickas and Porfeli (2012) career adaptability questionnaire and Liñán et al. (2011) Entrepreneurial Intention questionnaire. Data was analyzed applying SPSS26 and AMOS24. Results of structural equation modeling showed that psychological capital and career adaptability had positive and significant effects on entrepreneurial intention and explains 31% of its variance changes. Therefore, it can be concluded that psychological capital and career adaptability important and facilitating variables in the entrepreneurship development of students. The results of this research can have good results for professors and educational planners, and they can use it to understand how the factors that form the foundation and influence the intentions and development of entrepreneurial behaviors of students.