Document Type : Original Article
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Researcher, Social and Economic Research Department, Ilam Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, AREEO, Ilam, Iran.
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Department of Management, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Ilam University, Ilam, Iran.
Abstract
During the years when the "fewer children, better life" policy was promoted, the number of children per family decreased compared to the past, and single-child families became prevalent among Iranian households. Some studies in other countries have shown that choosing to have a single child has led such children to have less inclination to take risks. In this regard, the present study aimed to investigate the role of parents in choosing single-child families and its impact on children's entrepreneurial intentions among students of Ilam University. The statistical population in this study consisted of all students of Ilam University in 2024 (N = 7200), from which a sample size of 364 was determined based on Krejcie and Morgan's table, and they were selected using simple random sampling. The data collection tool was a questionnaire. To analyze the data in two sections, descriptive statistics (mean, mode, etc.) and inferential statistics (structural equation modeling), SPSS26 and SmartPLS3 software were used. The findings showed that entrepreneurial intentions were higher among children from families with a larger number of siblings, and among them, children of younger ages in the family had a greater tendency towards entrepreneurship compared to older children. Furthermore, a greater amount of material resources available to parents had a negative and significant impact on the entrepreneurial intentions of Ilam University students. Overall, the results showed that the coefficient of determination for the endogenous latent variable of the study, namely entrepreneurial intentions among Ilam University students, was 0.44. The most important achievement of this study is to help families provide favorable conditions within families to raise independent, diligent, hardworking, and risk-taking children.
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