A Study on the Effect of Entrepreneurship Upon the Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy and Career Maturity of the Entrepreneurial Gifted and General students

The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Mindset between Intolerance of Uncertainty and Career Adaptability

“…For instance, Rodriguez and Lieber [41] found that entrepreneurship education led to a significant increase in entrepreneurial mindset, and the entrepreneurial mindset gains were positively associated with perceptions of future career success. Baek and colleagues [18] found a significant effect of entrepreneurship on career decision-making self-efficacy and career maturity. In a study examining the role of entrepreneurship and resilience in Korean college students [42], it was found that, among the sub-factors of entrepreneurship, innovation and risk-taking showed a positive association with challenge-taking behavior while initiative and risk-taking had a positive relation with career preparation, with resilience having a mediating role between risktaking and challenge-taking behavior and career preparation.…”

“…In previous studies, entrepreneurial mindset had been mostly investigated in relation to the outcomes regarding the intention to create a new venture [71,72] or actual venture-creating-related behaviors [73][74][75]. Although there are few studies that have identified the relation between entrepreneurial mindset and other careerrelated variables, such as perceived future career success [41], career decision-making self-efficacy and career maturity [18], and career preparation [42], this is the first study, to the best of the authors' knowledge, that has directly identified the positive relationship between entrepreneurial mindset and career adaptability. This result is significant in that it provides the initial groundwork for future studies to determine the role of entrepreneurial mindset in the general career development process.…”

“…It involves creativity, innovativeness, and risk-taking necessary for adjustment, creating new values, and utilizing new opportunities [16]. These properties of the entrepreneurial mindset are applicable not just to venture creation but to general career development, and there are studies investigating entrepreneurial mindset in relation to general career-related factors such as career awareness [17] and career decision-making self-efficacy and career maturity [18]. However, there are no studies directly investigating the relation between entrepreneurial mindset and career adaptability.…”