TY - JOUR T1 - Entrepreneurship Education and Entrepreneurial Intentions of College Students: The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and the Moderating Role of Entrepreneurial Competition Experience. AU - Wu,Lihao, AU - Jiang,Suo, AU - Wang,Xiaomin, AU - Yu,Linwei, AU - Wang,Yansu, AU - Pan,Hui, Y1 - 2022/01/06/ PY - 2021/06/19/received PY - 2021/11/29/accepted PY - 2022/1/24/entrez PY - 2022/1/25/pubmed PY - 2022/1/25/medline KW - entrepreneurial intention KW - entrepreneurial self-efficacy KW - entrepreneurship education KW - mediating role KW - moderating role SP - 727826 EP - 727826 JF - Frontiers in psychology JO - Front Psychol VL - 12 N2 - This study aims to explore effective ways to improve college students' entrepreneurial self-efficacy and intentions through entrepreneurship education. The survey used a random sample of 804 college students in Zhejiang Province, China. The results show that: (1) In terms of the characteristics of entrepreneurial intention, there are significant differences in gender, entrepreneurial experience, entrepreneurial competition experience, and family background of self-employment. (2) There are significant differences in the characteristics of entrepreneurship education in gender, entrepreneurial competition experience, and the family background of self-employment. (3) In the relationship among entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and entrepreneurial intention, entrepreneurship education is significantly and positively related to entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intention. Entrepreneurial self-efficacy is significantly and positively associated with entrepreneurial intention. Entrepreneurial self-efficacy plays a complete mediating role between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention. Entrepreneurial self-efficacy also has a suppressing effect on the relationship between the two. (4) Entrepreneurial competition experience moderates the second half of the mediating effect of entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Finally, the study offers several proposals for the teaching practice of entrepreneurship education. SN - 1664-1078 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/35069312/Entrepreneurship_Education_and_Entrepreneurial_Intentions_of_College_Students:_The_Mediating_Role_of_Entrepreneurial_Self_Efficacy_and_the_Moderating_Role_of_Entrepreneurial_Competition_Experience_ DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -