청소년의 기업가정신이 창업의지에 미치는 영향: 사회적 지원세력의 조절효과를 중심으로

This study is carrying out an empirical analysis on the effect of youth entrepreneurship on entrepreneurial intentions of adolescents. As indicated in preceding researches, the study divided youth entrepreneurship into risk taking, innovativeness and proactiveness. And it analyzed the effect of the youth entrepreneurship on adolescents' entrepreneurial intentions focused on moderating effect of social support. The results of an empirical analysis for 251 adolescents living in Suncheon are as follows: First, as youth entrepreneurship, risk taking, innovativeness, and proactiveness positively (+) affected entrepreneurial intentions. This result, as preceding researches put emphasis, means that the fact that as risk taking, innovativeness and proactiveness appear high, entrepreneurial intentions also appear high, applies equally to adolescents as well. Second, as a verification result of moderating effect, social support adjusted the relationship between proactiveness and entrepreneurial intentions positively (+). This result shows that the positive effect of adolescents' proactiveness on entrepreneurial intentions is reinforced by the social support that adolescents hold. It is expected that the results of this study will be able to present a useful implication both theoretically and practically by suggesting that in view of social capital, the relationship between youth entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial intentions of adolescents can depend on social support. This study also focuses on adolescents as the subject of this study, and this subject is very meaningful because future foundation of company would be positively affected by the entrepreneurial intentions grown during an adolescent period. Finally, education for adolescents on entrepreneurship must be important because youth entrepreneurship have positive effect on the entrepreneurial intentions.