A Study On The Relationship Among Coping Efficiency,Fear Of Failure And Entrepreneurial Intention Of College Students

Entrepreneurial intention is an essential element in the initial stage of entrepreneurship and an important aspect to predict entrepreneurial activities.With the gradual acceleration of China’s transformation process and the increasing social employment pressure,entrepreneurship has gradually become a career choice for college students.As a group of young people with advanced knowledge in China,college students have rich knowledge reserve and unique creativity to keep pace with the times,and they are the main group to carry out entrepreneurial activities in China.In this study,coping efficacy and fear of failure were introduced as two factors,which were specifically discussed as the components of the internal psychological mechanism influencing the entrepreneurial intention of college students.Specific for discussing the relationship among coping efficacy,fear of failure and entrepreneurial intention,on the basis of literature review,this study applies the method of quantitative research,adopts the coping efficacy scale,the failure assessment scales and the entrepreneurial intention questionnaires to 454 college students’ coping efficacy,fear of failure,and the level of entrepreneurial intention.Among them,t-test and variance analysis were used to analyze the differences in demographic variables of coping efficacy,fear of failure and entrepreneurial intention.Correlation analysis,regression analysis and structural equation model were used to analyze the relationship between coping efficacy,fear of failure and entrepreneurial intentionResearch shows following results.First,college students’ coping efficacy,fear of failure and entrepreneurial intention has significant differences in some demographic variables;Second,college students’ coping efficacy and its three factors are significantly negatively correlated with the fear of failure and its five factors,and positively correlated with entrepreneurial intention,also,the fear of failure and its five factors are significantly negatively correlated with entrepreneurial intention;Third,coping efficacy and fear of failure of college students have predictive effects on entrepreneurial intention;Forth,fear of failure plays a partial mediating role between coping efficiency and entrepreneurial intention.The results show that coping efficacy is an important factor affecting the entrepreneurial intention of college students.Therefore,the government,colleges and universities,families and students themselves should improve the response efficacy and reduce the fear of failure to achieve the purpose of improving the enthusiasm of entrepreneurial intention of college students.From the above perspectives,the research results and discussion provide reasonable suggestions on how to promote the entrepreneurial intention of college students in the future.