Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Assistant Professor of Sport Management, Jahrom University
2 Assistant Professor of Sport Management, Sport Sciences Research Institute of Iran
Abstract
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of spiritual intelligence and entrepreneurial attitude on entrepreneurial intention of sport science students in Fars province. This study is a correlational research that has been implemented in the field. The study population included all students of sports science in Fars province whose number was equal to 680. With the considering the conditions necessary for modeling, sample size was assigned equal to 220 people. In order to data collection three questioners of spiritual intelligence (King, 2008), attitudes toward entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial intention (Chen and Linan, 2009) was used. Face and content validity of questionnaires were confirmed by sports management and entrepreneurship and the reliability accepted by a pilot study. In order to analyze the data, descriptive and inferential statistics were used. The results showed that spiritual intelligence, both directly and indirectly through attitude toward entrepreneurship has a positive and significant effect on entrepreneurial intention. Also, the model of the effect of spiritual intelligence and attitude toward entrepreneurship on entrepreneurship intention had a significant fit in the understudied population. The obtained model of the research can be used as an agenda for entrepreneurship development and to development of content and headlines that applicable to teaching and to improve the attitude and entrepreneurship intention of sports science student.
Keywords
- Spiritual Intelligence
- Attitude toward Entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurial Intention
- Sport Science Students
Main Subjects
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