Investigation On University Students' Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy

Entrepreneurship, which is increasingly close to the national economic development and employment, brings new products and services to the societies and generates positive influences on promoting social and economic development. In recent years, more and more scholars start their research on entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial self-efficacy is a vital factor that affects entrepreneurial behaviors, and it also predicts the choice of entrepreneurship and success of career better than ability. However, it is lack of research on entrepreneurial self-efficacy in our country, especially those on students' entrepreneurial self-efficacy.This paper works out a scientific and effective questionnaire, which named "Survey on Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy of University Students", based on reading large amount of literatures about self-efficacy and entrepreneurial self-efficacy. This questionnaire examines students from three representative colleges in Zhejiang University of Technology, and aims at measuring students' entrepreneurial self-efficacy. The results show that overall level of university students' entrepreneurial self-efficacy is low; and there is no statistically significant difference in different types of students' grades and their homeplaces; however it is the similar case with the condition in different major,family income,experience of student work. This paper analyzes the reasons of this phenomenon, meanwhile, proposes. training strategies to improve university students' entrepreneurial self-efficacy. It is practically significant for increasing university students' entrepreneurial intention, promoting their self-entrepreneurship, and creating more jobs for societies.