Table 2.
Moderated mediation regression results for the effects of proactive personality on entrepreneurial action.
| Entrepreneurial intention (T1) | Implementation intention (T2) | Entrepreneurial action (T2) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B | SE | CIs | B | SE | CIs | B | SE | CIs | ||||
| LLCI | ULCI | LLCI | ULCI | LLCI | ULCI | |||||||
| Gender | −0.01 | 0.18 | −0.37 | 0.35 | 0.09 | 0.18 | −0.26 | 0.44 | −0.03 | 0.18 | −0.35 | 0.33 |
| Age – T2 | 0.04 | 0.03 | −0.01 | 0.10 | 0.02 | 0.03 | −0.03 | 0.07 | 0.06 * | 0.03 | <0.01 | 0.11 |
| Academic grade | −0.01 | 0.10 | −20 | 0.19 | −0.06 | 0.08 | −0.25 | 0.14 | −0.12 | 0.10 | −0.31 | 0.08 |
| History of business in the family | 0.64 * | 0.25 | 0.14 | 1.14 | −0.29 | 0.25 | −0.79 | 0.21 | 0.31 | 0.26 | −0.20 | 0.82 |
| Proactive personality – T1 | 0.52 *** | 0.07 | 0.39 | 0.65 | 0.33 *** | 0.09 | 0.16 | 0.50 | 0.10 | 0.09 | −0.09 | 0.28 |
| Entrepreneurial intention – T1 | 0.32 *** | 0.08 | 0.16 | 0.48 | 0.03 | 0.09 | −0.15 | 0.21 | ||||
| Implementation intention (implement) – T2 | 0.46 *** | 0.10 | 0.27 | 0.65 | ||||||||
| Perceived family support (family) – T2 | 0.23 ** | 0.09 | 0.06 | 0.41 | ||||||||
| Implement × family | 0.16 ** | 0.06 | 0.04 | 0.29 | ||||||||
| Model summary | R 2 = 0.36, F(5, 142) = 16.22 *** | R 2 = 0.34, F(6, 141) = 11.91 *** | R 2 = 0.38, F(9, 138) = 9.27 *** | |||||||||
| ∆R 2 due to implement × family | ∆R 2 = 0.03, F(1, 138) = 6.82 ** | |||||||||||
| Conditional indirect effects of proactive personality on entrepreneurial action | Mediator: entrepreneurial intention | Mediators: entrepreneurial intention and implementation intention | ||||||||||
| Effect | Boot SE | Boot CIs | Effect | Boot SE | Boot CI | |||||||
| LLCI | ULCI | LLCI | ULCI | |||||||||
| Low perceived family support (mean − 1) | 0.10 | 0.05 | 0.01 | 0.20 | 0.05 | 0.03 | <−0.01 | 0.11 | ||||
| Average perceived family support (mean) | 0.15 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.28 | 0.08 | 0.04 | 0.01 | 0.15 | ||||
| High perceived family support (mean + 1) | 0.21 | 0.08 | 0.08 | 0.41 | 0.11 | 0.05 | 0.01 | 0.22 | ||||
| Index of moderated mediation | 0.06 | 0.04 | 0.01 | 0.15 | 0.03 | 0.02 | <0.01 | 0.08 | ||||
| Conditional effects of implementation intention on entrepreneurial actions | B | SE | CIs | |||||||||
| LLCI | ULCI | |||||||||||
| Low perceived family support (mean − 1) | 0.30 ** | 0.09 | 0.11 | 0.48 | ||||||||
| Average perceived family support (mean) | 0.46 *** | 0.10 | 0.27 | 0.65 | ||||||||
| High perceived family support (mean + 1) | 0.63 *** | 0.13 | 0.37 | 0.89 | ||||||||
Gender: female = 1 and male = 0. Academic grade: cumulative grade point average (CGPA) ranging from 0.0 to 5.0. History of business in the family: 0 = no and 1 = yes. CI = confidence interval.
p < 0.05;
p < 0.01;
p < 0.001.