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H4: There is positive relationship between family exposure and entrepreneurial intentions
of business students.
H5: The entrepreneurial intention would be more among male students than female
students.
4. Statistical Results
4.1 Descriptive Statistics
Table 4.1 (See Appendix 1)
Table 4.1 provides the overview of the data collected that shows that out of 313
respondents 168 were males and 142 were females and reaming three did not provide
their gender. Out of these 310, 237 were intended to start their own venture after
completion of their study and 73 did not show such intention. 69 were having personal
business experience of some kind and 242 students were inexperienced with regard to
any business. 210 students were having families with business exposure and 100 were
from families which were not having business exposure.
Table 4.2 (See Appendix 1)
The percentages presented in Table 4.2 show that on the whole the male showed more
inclination to start their own venture with a percentage of 78 while only 74% female
students showed their inclination to start their own venture. Thus, the study confirms the
H5 that the entrepreneurial intention would be more among male students than female
students. The difference of percentage with regard to the personal business experience is
not significant thus we reject H3 that there is positive relationship between personal
business experience and entrepreneurial intentions of business students. Table 4.2 clearly
indicates that family business exposure may play its part in building entrepreneurial
intentions among the students as 78.1% of students having family business exposure
show their intention to start their own venture while this percentage is 72.55% among
students who do not have families with business exposure so we accept H4 that there is
positive relationship between entrepreneurial intention and family business exposure.
This finding is in accordance with the findings of Crant (1996) that student having family
business exposure show more inclination towards starting their own venture.
Table 4.3 (See Appendix 1)
The descriptive show that mean for entrepreneurial intention is .7682 which shows that
more students are inclined to start their venture after completion of their study. That is
about 77% of the students in our sample show their agreeableness that they would prefer
to start their own business. The mean score of overall support factors that is the average
of the individual support factor show that overall students somewhat agree that these
factors support their entrepreneurial intentions but this mean score is not that strong as it
is below the score of 4 which was marked as agree in the questionnaire. The variability in
overall score of support factors as measured by standard deviation is quite low from the
individual factor that shows overall reliability of the average score is better. The
maximum mean in individual factors is of Education Environment which is near to 4. The
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