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Entrepreneurship as a Mediator Between Self-Efficacy and Innovativeness Among Undergraduate Nursing Students
Marwa Mohamed Mahmoud Abdellah1, Ayman Mohamed El-Ashry, Ahmed Farghaly Tawfik
1Author Affiliations: Nursing Education Department, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt (Dr Abdellah and Dr Hendawi); Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt (Dr El-Ashry); and Public Health Department, College of Nursing, Northern Border University, Arar, Saudi Arabia (Dr Tawfik).
Background:
Health care education increasingly requires nurses who are confident, entrepreneurial, and able to innovate.
Purpose:
To examine the relationships among self-efficacy, entrepreneurship, and innovativeness among nursing students and to test whether entrepreneurship mediates the relationship between self-efficacy and innovativeness.
Methods:
This cross-sectional correlational study included 528 undergraduate nursing students from 4 academic years. Students completed Arabic versions of the General Self-Efficacy Scale, Entrepreneurship Measurement Instrument for Nursing Students, and Individual Innovativeness Scale.
Results:
Self-efficacy correlated positively with entrepreneurship and innovativeness, and entrepreneurship correlated positively with innovativeness. Path analysis showed that self-efficacy predicted entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurship predicted innovativeness, while the direct path from self-efficacy to innovativeness was not significant.
Conclusions:
Entrepreneurship may act as a statistical pathway linking self-efficacy with innovativeness. Nursing curricula should combine confidence-building with entrepreneurial learning to support innovation.
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