Structural modeling the effective role of entrepreneurial automation in shaping students' entrepreneurial intention emphasizing the theory of planned behavior components

Self-efficacy is a useful concept to explain human behavior and also plays an important role in identifying the choice, level of effort and perseverance of individuals, and in today's society due to unemployment in various fields, the importance of entrepreneurship has increased. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of entrepreneurial self-efficacy on entrepreneurial intention with the mediating role of components of the theory of planned behavior among students of Mashhad universities. This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-survey in terms of nature and method. The statistical population included students of non-profit universities in Mashhad that 239 people were selected as the sample size using the sampling method in structural equation modeling. In order to collect data, a standard questionnaire was used, the face and content validity of which was confirmed in the formulation of items and in a quantitative dimension of factor analysis. The reliability of the instrument has also been calculated and verified through Cronbach's alpha and composite reliability. Data were analyzed using structural equation method using SPS25 and PiLAS3 software. Findings of this study show that entrepreneurial self-efficacy has a direct effect on the components of the theory of planned behavior and entrepreneurial intention, and entrepreneurial self-efficacy indirectly affects the intention of entrepreneurship through the components of the theory of planned behavior. Also, the components of the theory of planned behavior directly affect the entrepreneurial intention, among which the variable of attitude towards entrepreneurship has the greatest effect on entrepreneurial intention.