The Effect of COVID-19 on College Students’ Entrepreneurial Intentions

The new coronary pneumonia epidemic has had a tremendous impact on the world economic situation, causing a large number of enterprises to suffer from serious losses, but also bringing a large number of entrepreneurial opportunities. For college students, whether the opportunities brought by the epid...

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Published inFrontiers in psychology Vol. 13; p. 870705
Main Authors Sheng, Fan, Chen, Yangyang
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 24.03.2022
Subjects
COVID-19
entrepreneurial intentions
event strength
fear of failure
Psychology
regulatory focus
COVID-19
fear of failure
entrepreneurial intentions
event strength
regulatory focus
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Summary:The new coronary pneumonia epidemic has had a tremendous impact on the world economic situation, causing a large number of enterprises to suffer from serious losses, but also bringing a large number of entrepreneurial opportunities. For college students, whether the opportunities brought by the epidemic can attract them to step into the entrepreneurial path becomes a question worthy of attention in the process of restoring economic vitality and guiding students’ employment and entrepreneurship. In this article, a mediation model was constructed and tested through 245 questionnaire data by combining event system theory, regulatory focus theory, and emotion cognitive evaluation theory. The results showed that defensive regulatory focus and fear of failure and facilitative regulatory focus and fear of failure were all able to continuously mediate the effect of event intensity of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic on the entrepreneurial intentions of college students.
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This article was submitted to Positive Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology
Edited by: Lisete Mónico, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Reviewed by: Sílvio Manuel da Rocha Brito, Instituto Politécnico de Tomar (IPT), Portugal; Márcio Oliveira, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal
ISSN:1664-1078
1664-1078
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.870705