MEDIATING ROLE OF ENTREPRENEURIAL SELF EFFICACY IN DEVELOPING ENTREPRENEURIAL BEHAVIOR OF ENTREPRENEUR STUDENTS

Entrepreneur student are students who own for-profit businesses while attending college. They are not only creating new ventures, but they are in the end of TEA (Totally Early stage entrepreneurial Activity) phase in entrepreneur process which finally they have to decide to continue their business or to stop it (discontinued). The purpose of this study is to analyse the influence of personality traits, entrepreneurial learning, environmental accessibility toward entrepreneurial intention and behaviour of entrepreneur students with mediating role of Entrepreneurial self-efficacy which suggested as the main factor that has the biggest effect toward entrepreneurial intention and behaviour. Research sample consisted of 162 entrepreneurial students from various universities in Semarang. The data carried out in 2017 and analysed with a Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) using AMOS v.21. The significant mediating role of entrepreneurial self-efficacy of entrepreneur student in developing entrepreneurial intention and behaviour showed the significant contribution of Social Cognitive Theory, Theory of Planned Behaviour and Entrepreneurship career development theory to realize entrepreneurship graduated career development.