Exploring Entrepreneurial Intention and Student Engagement of Youth Living in Poverty
Khodor, Rasha Mahmoud (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Teories de l'Educació i Pedagogia Social)
Valero, Oliver (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Matemàtiques)
Álvarez Cánovas, Isabel 1971- (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Teories de l'Educació i Pedagogia Social)

Date:	2024
Abstract:	Graduating from secondary education for adolescents living in poverty is challenging. Strong entrepreneurial intention and student engagement among youth living in poverty often play a protective role in reducing school dropout and fostering school completion, which results in improved educational attainment. However, research on this topic is scarce. A total of 1135 adolescents took part in this cross-sectional study, 50. 9% of which were females. On average, they were 16. 4 years old. They were all upper secondary school students from ten public and private schools in Lebanon. They completed instruments measuring entrepreneurial intention and student engagement. This study explored the covariate associations between risk and promotive factors through four dimensions of entrepreneurial intention and two components of student engagement (cognitive and psychological engagement). It shows positive associations for entrepreneurial intention with both individual factors (age) and social factors (working mother and private school). Negative associations for student engagement were found in all (individual and social) factors with the exception of the father's job, which did not present any association. The findings provide insight for policymaking to empower schools to promote school completion and educational attainment among these youth by providing policy initiatives and school-based interventions that target entrepreneurial exposure and engagement strengthening, hence meeting young people's individual, family, and school community needs.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Youth living in poverty ; Entrepreneurial intention ; Student engagement ; Educational attainment ; Promotive factors
Published in:	Behavioral sciences, Vol. 14, Issue 11 (October 2024) , art. 995, ISSN 2076-328X

DOI: 10.3390/bs14110995
PMID: 39594295

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