Agricultural education
abdolrahim gheyassi; amir Alambeigi
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Identifying the details of the role of social support from agricultural academic staff on the job search behavior of agricultural students is a scientific necessity. Accordingly, the main purpose of this study was to investigate the role of social support from academic staff of agricultural higher education ...
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Identifying the details of the role of social support from agricultural academic staff on the job search behavior of agricultural students is a scientific necessity. Accordingly, the main purpose of this study was to investigate the role of social support from academic staff of agricultural higher education institutions on the job search behavior of agricultural students. Fourth-year undergraduate students of all agricultural fields in public universities constituted the statistical population of this study. 384 students from ten universities were selected as the statistical sample of the study using the inverse square root method and two-stage sampling method. After designing and confirming face validity, construct validity (AVE = 0.54-0.79), reliability (θ= 0.79-0.90), and composite reliability (CR<0.88-0.92), the research questionnaire was distributed among the respondents. The dominant statistical method was structural equation modeling. The results showed that social support from agricultural academic staff is effective in improving the job search behavior of agricultural students. The results also showed that psychological capital partially mediates the effect of social support on students' job search behavior. However, according to the results obtained, the supportive role of academic staff of higher education institutions in strengthening students' psychological capital is nonlinear. More social support from academic staff is suggested to improve job search behavior and the psychological capital of agricultural students.
Agricultural education
KUBRA arkavazi; seyed ahmadreza Pishbin; Seyyed Yousef Hedjazi; amir alambaigi
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Attention to human capital is an undeniable necessity in order to achieve economic goals. Universities, as responsible institutions for developing and cultivating human capital needed by society, have a significant contribution to the knowledge-based economy. In this regard, universities have faced new ...
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Attention to human capital is an undeniable necessity in order to achieve economic goals. Universities, as responsible institutions for developing and cultivating human capital needed by society, have a significant contribution to the knowledge-based economy. In this regard, universities have faced new and challenging developments that leds a distinct concept called "Entrepreneurial University". Despite the importance of the agricultural sector in the country’s growth and development, no effective action has been taken in the field of Agricultural Entrepreneur University. Therefore, the current research has been taken with the aim of explaining the development mechanisms of entrepreneurial university in Iran's agricultural higher education. A quantitative-qualitative method was used to conduct this research. Statistical population of the study included all agricultural faculty members of Iran universities, 206 of them were selected using the Daniel's method in an accessible manner to collect the required data. In order to data collection, semi-structured interviews were used in the qualitative part and researcher-made questionnaires in the quantitative part. The results of entrepreneurial university dimensions’ analysis indicate the importance and role of eight dimensions including: "vision, mission, strategy", "effective management and organizational structure change", "stakeholders participation", "knowledge commercialization", "executive mechanisms", "entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial culture creation", "social and economic challenges" and "technology Requirements", in creating the foundation for development and realization of the agricultural entrepreneurial university
Agricultural education
abdolrahim gheyassi; Amir Alambeigi
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Exploring the employability literature shows that there is little empirical evidence on the interaction of soft skills, and for this reason, it is important to investigate this issue; Because it can play a significant role in teaching and developing soft skills. In this causal correlational research, ...
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Exploring the employability literature shows that there is little empirical evidence on the interaction of soft skills, and for this reason, it is important to investigate this issue; Because it can play a significant role in teaching and developing soft skills. In this causal correlational research, the effect of learning and communication soft skills on emotional intelligence soft skills in agricultural students was investigated. Final-year undergraduate students of all agricultural fields in public universities constituted the statistical population of this survey and quantitative research. The statistical sample of the research included 384 people who were selected using the inverse square root method and the multi-stage sampling method. The research tool was a five-point Likert scale questionnaire, whose formal validity was approved by a panel of experts, as well as calculating the factor loading and the discriminant validity and divergent validity and reliability tests through the calculation of ordinal theta and composite reliability. The results of structural equation modeling showed that communication soft skills and learning soft skills have a significant effect in predicting students' emotional intelligence soft skills. This finding clarifies a part of the puzzle of the effect of soft skills on other soft skills of agricultural students. Revealing the mechanism of the effect of communication and learning soft skills on emotional intelligence soft skills, can facilitate the development of soft skills in agricultural higher education because it can provide a rational reason for focusing on a few soft skills.
Agricultural education
Mohsen Maleklee; Amir Alambeigi; Seyyed Yousef Hedjazi; Seyed Mahmood Hosseini
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Due to the critical nature of agricultural extension in poverty alleviation and increasing food security, it is necessary to pay attention to the entry and barring of new actors through the pluralistic approach in agricultural extension. One of these actors is the private sector, and the issue of service ...
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Due to the critical nature of agricultural extension in poverty alleviation and increasing food security, it is necessary to pay attention to the entry and barring of new actors through the pluralistic approach in agricultural extension. One of these actors is the private sector, and the issue of service quality is of double importance in the case of this sector of agricultural technical service providers. The statistical population of this research was farmers who had the experience of using the services of consulting, technical and agricultural engineering services companies in Tehran province during the last 5 years, and finally, 201 farmers were selected from the 422 participants through random sampling method. A questionnaire was used to collect data, and to determine its validity, the average value of extracted variance (AVE = 0.82) was used, and to determine the reliability of the research tool, the composite reliability value (CR = 0.95) was used. SERVQUAL model showed that the indicators of the model titled: quality of response (0.84), concreteness (0.79), guarantee (0.77), reliability (0.56), empathy (0.74), loyalty (0.65), company organization (0.65), customer service (0.55) and internal control (0.44) can be modeled. Based on this, it was found that the SERVQUAL model has the necessary credibility for measuring the quality of services provided to farmers and providing services with a higher level of quality by consulting companies for technical and agricultural engineering services.
Agricultural education
abdolrahim gheyassi; Amir Alambegi
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According to the literature, the investigation of the role of technical skills in the perceived employability of agricultural students has been neglected by researchers. according to this, the main purpose of this research was to investigate the role of technical skills on the perceived employability ...
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According to the literature, the investigation of the role of technical skills in the perceived employability of agricultural students has been neglected by researchers. according to this, the main purpose of this research was to investigate the role of technical skills on the perceived employability of agricultural students.The statistical population of this applied research consists of fourth-year undergraduate agricultural students in the public universities of Iran in the academic year 2021-2022. The sample size was selected using the inverse square root method and multi-stage sampling method (n=384).The research instrument was a five-point Likert scale questionnaire, whose content validity was approved by a panel of experts, as well as calculating the factor loading and the divergent validity and discriminant validity and reliability tests through the calculation of ordinal theta and composite reliability (θ>0.7). Structural equation modeling and finite Mixture algorithm (FIMIX-PLS) were used in data analysis. The results showed that technical skills have a statistically significant relationship with the perceived employability of agricultural students. Also, By discovering the classes of intangible heterogeneity in the context of the research data, it was determined that the power of explaining the perceived employability of agricultural students by technical skills is very low for 79.2% of the studied students and very high for 20.8% of them. The analysis showed that the two groups differ from each other based on interest in the field of study. The obtained results can be used in planning for the movement of agricultural higher education institutions towards training employable students.
Agricultural education
abdolrahim gheyassi; Amir Alambegi; Ahmad Rezvanfar; Seyed Mahmood Hosseini; seyed ahmadreza Pishbin
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The following research aims to provide a structural model for the development of essential soft skills in agricultural students. In this regard, a mixed approach (qualitative-quantitative) was used. In the qualitative part of the research, the data was collected through semi-structured interviews with ...
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The following research aims to provide a structural model for the development of essential soft skills in agricultural students. In this regard, a mixed approach (qualitative-quantitative) was used. In the qualitative part of the research, the data was collected through semi-structured interviews with 19 Participants (faculty members of agricultural majors) who are expert in the subject of research. Participants were selected using purposeful and snowball sampling methods. In qualitative phase, "grounded theory strategy" was used to design the initial model of the research. In the quantitative part of the research, after confirming the reliability and validity of the instrument, data were collected from 384 of the senior students of agricultural majors. In order to evaluate the research model, Structural equation modeling with partial least squares approach was used. The results of the research confirmed the research model. Based on this model, the factors affecting on essential soft skills and essential soft skills consequences for agricultural students were clarified.
Agricultural education
abdolrahim gheyassi; Amir Alambeigi
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Although researches show that the formation of entrepreneurial intention is based on social and psychological capital; but linear relationships, as well as ignoring gender, may not clearly explain the formation of the mechanism of entrepreneurial intention. Based on this, the main purpose of the present ...
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Although researches show that the formation of entrepreneurial intention is based on social and psychological capital; but linear relationships, as well as ignoring gender, may not clearly explain the formation of the mechanism of entrepreneurial intention. Based on this, the main purpose of the present study was to compare the linear and non-linear effect of social capital on the entrepreneurial intention of agricultural students with the mediation of psychological capital, which was done separately by gender for a deeper understanding. The statistical population of the research consisted of final-year undergraduate agricultural students in the public universities in the academic year 2021-2022. In this regard, 384 questionnaires, designed in a five-option Likert scale and collected by multi-stage sampling method, were analyzed using the PLS-SEM algorithm in Smart Pls4 software. The reliability and face validity of the instrument were confirmed through ordinal coefficient theta and an expert panel. The results showed that in female students, the nonlinear model of the effect of social capital on the entrepreneurial intention with the mediation of psychological capital is superior to the linear model. But in male students, the model is only linear. In addition, the results of the research revealed that the mechanism of the effect of the studied structures in male and female students is different in some ways. The results of the present research can help education officials and planners to adopt policies and practices for male and female students that will promote their entrepreneurial intentions.
Hamid Movahed Mohammadi; fatemeh Oskohi; amir ALAMBEIGI; Mohammadreza Parsanejad; Ahmad Rezvanfar
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Technology Transfer from university to industry with the nature of commercialization of academic research findings is considered as an economic development strategy and it is based on the synergistic connection of science, technology and their exploitation. Proper use of technology and its effective ...
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Technology Transfer from university to industry with the nature of commercialization of academic research findings is considered as an economic development strategy and it is based on the synergistic connection of science, technology and their exploitation. Proper use of technology and its effective transfer from university to industry in the context of university entrepreneurial ecosystem, can increase productivity, efficient use of resources, increase product diversity, reduce production costs by increasing innovation and creativity in doing things and increase capacity be competitive and provide more facilities and financial resources to academic researchers and improve the technology transfer process. In this study, the coding process was performed using MAXQDA10 software and the main and sub-categories were extracted. Then, common and more important tasks and functions were selected from among the researches. In total, 24 tasks and functions were identified for offices and Technology Transfer centers in the form of five main tasks including: registration and management of intellectual property, empowerment of researchers, networking and communication with the community, promotion and sociability and feasibility and financial services. This interaction leads to recognizing the needs of industry, adapting courses and research to the needs of industry, creating internships for students, identifying superior abilities and ideas, finally, increasing the motivation and ability to create new business in students and their independence to government affairs.
Agricultural education
abdolrahim gheyassi; Amir Alambeigi; Ahmad Rezvanfar; Seyed Mahmood Hosseini; seyed ahmadreza Pishbin
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AbstractThe aim of this study was to explain the structural relationships between the components of essential soft skills in agricultural students (9 soft skills). In this regard, to achieve the aim of the study, the fuzzy DEMATEL technique was used. The views of 11 academic experts were collected through ...
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AbstractThe aim of this study was to explain the structural relationships between the components of essential soft skills in agricultural students (9 soft skills). In this regard, to achieve the aim of the study, the fuzzy DEMATEL technique was used. The views of 11 academic experts were collected through a questionnaire, based on the Likert scale. The results showed that communication skills, learning skills, and leadership skills are the most effective components, respectively. Also, findings indicated that the adaptability skills component is the most influential component. The results also show that five components (communication skills, emotional intelligence skills, leadership skills, learning skills, ethical skills) are causal factors and four components (problem-solving and decision-making skills, time management skills, teamwork skills, adaptability skills) Are effect factors. Thus, in higher agricultural education, while paying attention to the development of all essential soft skills, more focus and investment should be made on the development of communication skills, learning skills, and leadership skills, respectively.
Mona Babaee; Hamid Movahed Mohammadi; Amir Alambegi; Ahmad Rezvanfar
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In recent years, a number of biodiversity in Iran have become extinct and many of them are on the verge of extinction, while biodiversity plays an important role in environmental life and health. This includes a large number of cultivated and horticultural species. Universities can play an important ...
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In recent years, a number of biodiversity in Iran have become extinct and many of them are on the verge of extinction, while biodiversity plays an important role in environmental life and health. This includes a large number of cultivated and horticultural species. Universities can play an important role in preserving and improving biodiversity. On this basis, Higher education institutions around the world have begun to change their missions, goals, and perspectives to address and integrate the challenges of biodiversity conservation. Creating such an educational structure will not simply happen and will require research, re-thinking and revising the components of the university. The human component of the system of higher education in agriculture and natural resources is one of the pillars of the system that plays a central role in advancing the system's objectives in a dynamic and harmonious connection with other components. Therefore, this study was conducted to identify the components of faculty members' professional competencies for biodiversity education. This study was conducted with qualitative approach and inductive content analysis method. Required data were collected by semi-structured interviews with 24 experts in the field of environmental education and biodiversity selected by snowball sampling. He began the inductive content analysis by identifying the meaningful aspects and then labeling them in the form of qualitative identities and continued by categorizing the identities and linking them to categories. This process was implemented with the help of MAXQDA software. To validate qualitative findings, participant review and expert review strategies have been used. The findings showed that faculty members' professional competencies for biodiversity education included skills competencies, knowledge competencies, value competencies, and ethical competencies that each had indicators
Hamid Movahed Mohammadi; Zohreh Motamedi Nia; Ahmad Rezvanfar; Amir Alambaigi; Hossein Mahdizadeh
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The importance of startups in the field of agriculture is more evident than ever. Nevertheless, in order for this important matter to be realized, providing the environment and conditions or ecosystem for startups is essential. Considering the lack of experience of the agriculture sector of Iran for ...
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The importance of startups in the field of agriculture is more evident than ever. Nevertheless, in order for this important matter to be realized, providing the environment and conditions or ecosystem for startups is essential. Considering the lack of experience of the agriculture sector of Iran for creating such ecosystems, it is necessary to build on the experiences of pioneering entrepreneurial sectors and identify the components of agricultural startup ecosystems. This paper aims to present the accelerating model for academic entrepreneurial ecosystem growth based on Isenberg’s model, with an emphasis on the agricultural higher education from the viewpoints of startups experts. This applied research was carried out using survey method. The statistical population of the study consisted of 1800 startup experts in Iran. Using the Cochran formula, a sample comprising 286 individuals was selected by simple random sampling. To assess the validity of the research tool a divergent validity method was utilized, the amount of which for the constructs under study was above AVE ≥ 0.5 and acceptable. In order to determine the reliability, the combined reliability method was used, the amount of which for the constructs under study was above CR ≥ 0.6 and acceptable. The amount of the ordinal theta coefficient for the constructs was calculated to be above θ ≥ 0.7. In order to analyze the data, exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were used. Then according to the measurement model, the factors of the accelerating model for academic entrepreneurial ecosystem growth include enhancing the private sector, supporting productive entrepreneurship, developing entrepreneurship culture, entrepreneurial thinking, paying attention the role of consultants, providing the physical space, the ecosystem of training agricultural business skills, network building, the political image of the country’s market, and access to financial resources.
Hamid Movahed Mohammadi; Fereshteh Shaeri; Amir Alambeigi
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Providing a Balanced Growth Context The competencies of learners in the Teaching-learning process are realized in entrepreneurial education formation. The number of proposed strategies for implementing entrepreneurial education requires a strategy that is most consistent with the educational system. ...
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Providing a Balanced Growth Context The competencies of learners in the Teaching-learning process are realized in entrepreneurial education formation. The number of proposed strategies for implementing entrepreneurial education requires a strategy that is most consistent with the educational system. With this approach, the aim of the current applied research was to prioritize strategies for the establishment of entrepreneurial education in the agricultural education system. A panel of 21 experts was selected to address the priority network of entrepreneurial education strategies. Based on the analytical network process, which is the general theory of relative measurement, for the inference of the relative importance of composite priority, the elements of the network of relationships between the criteria and the strategies that form the basis of entrepreneurial education in a decision space were measured. Solving the Super Matrix with Super Decision software showed that the university-industry collaboration (UIC) in a network structure plays a role as the most appropriate strategy for realizing agricultural entrepreneurial education criteria. The result of the sensitivity analysis showed that the proposed structure could be repeatable.
parvin Hajiagha; Sara Jalilian
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One of the most important educational roles of the agricultural Extension Agents is problem solving, which requires the development of individual creativity. Based on the theory of social exchange and the expectation – confirmation Theory, organizational exchanges foster individual creativity, ...
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One of the most important educational roles of the agricultural Extension Agents is problem solving, which requires the development of individual creativity. Based on the theory of social exchange and the expectation – confirmation Theory, organizational exchanges foster individual creativity, and confirmation of this will be related to personal judgments. Hence this study aimed to investigate the effect of organizational creativity in the development of individual creativity extension experts of the social network tie was attended by the mediator. The statistical population of this research is the experts of agricultural extension of Isfahan province is 170 people. The data gathering tool was a standard questionnaire with Likert's five-choice range. Composite reliability and Ordinal Theta Measures showed satisfied reliability. Collected data was analyzed by structural equation modeling with partial least squares method (PLS-SEM). The findings of this study showed that social network tie by mediating role can better explain the effect of organizational creativity on individual creativity. Also, the most important finding of research has shown that creativity is a syndicate phenomenon that forms through the establishment of a social network tie in the organization. Finally, the results of the research showed that the mediation role of the social network tie variable is visible in the process of transforming organizational and individual creativity
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Today this has been accepted that entrepreneurship education success is depended on reinforcement of students' entrepreneurial self-efficacy beliefs. In other words entrepreneurial self-efficacy beliefs are precursor for business startup behavior or business development, particularly for reduction of ...
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Today this has been accepted that entrepreneurship education success is depended on reinforcement of students' entrepreneurial self-efficacy beliefs. In other words entrepreneurial self-efficacy beliefs are precursor for business startup behavior or business development, particularly for reduction of nascent entrepreneur’s fear of failure. The main aim of Empirical research was assessment the composed structures of Entrepreneurial self- efficacy among agricultural students. This Empirical research is applied research which its data was gathered through survey method. Non experimental research as well as descriptive – correlation approach is best description for research type. Senior and junior undergraduate agricultural students composed research population (N=730). 120 convenient questionnaires were gathered as result of Cochran formula. Validity was treated through face validity, convergence and construct validity and reliability was considered by Cronbach’s alpha and composite reliability amount. Structural Equation Modeling using confirmatory factor analysis was dominant method which shows for sustainable entrepreneurship in higher education, seven dimensions have central role. Systems thinking competence (STC), Embracing diversity and interdisciplinarity (EDI), Foresighted thinking (FTC), Normative competence (NC), Action competence (AC), Interpersonal competence (IC) and Strategic management competence (SMC), confirmed as dominant competencies that must be considered in entrepreneurship education. It seems concentrate on these competencies for in agricultural education with aim to fostering nascent entrepreneur, could result on sustainable entrepreneurship.
Amir Alambagi; Romina Amiri; Sina Sahebdel
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Students' educational motivation and concerns for future job are interlocked and higher education institutions play a vital role in this issue. In align with this issue current empirical research focused on employability skills as an inner driver for agricultural students’ educational motivation. ...
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Students' educational motivation and concerns for future job are interlocked and higher education institutions play a vital role in this issue. In align with this issue current empirical research focused on employability skills as an inner driver for agricultural students’ educational motivation. Statistical population was composed of 230 of agricultural students at Imam Khomeini Higher Education Center in Alborz Province, Iran from that 144 students were selected based on Krejcie and Morgan table and through stratified sampling. The research instrument was a questionnaire that its face validity and its reliability were secured prion to the main data collection phase (Ordinal Theta ranged from 0.81 to 0.91). Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and binary logistic regression were the prime statistical methods applied by SPSS 23. Factor analysis showed that students' educational motivation is detected in six dimensions including; motivation and innovation, motivation and professional base, emotional motivation, financial incentive motivation, motivation to learn and motivation to get the degree. Also, motivation and innovation were the most variance extracted in these dimensions. The results of logistic regression analysis showed that students' educational motivation is dependent to some dimensions of employability including leadership skills. Hence, curriculum concentration on leadership skills could result in students' educational motivation and achievement.
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Drawing on self-efficacy theory this applied study, which its data were collected through a survey, was aimed to investigate variability of positive affects using dimensions of teaching self-efficacy among agriculture trainers. Statistical population was consisted of 210 agriculture thinners of applied ...
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Drawing on self-efficacy theory this applied study, which its data were collected through a survey, was aimed to investigate variability of positive affects using dimensions of teaching self-efficacy among agriculture trainers. Statistical population was consisted of 210 agriculture thinners of applied scientific centers of higher education in Tehran and Alborz Province which 130 cases randomly was selected according to finite correction population formula. Research instrument was a standard questionnaire which its face, construct and discriminant validity was confirmed and amount of Cronbach's alpha and composite reliability was satisfied. Statistical dominant structural equation modeling method which employing was partial least squares (PLS) method, the results showed that self-efficacy in motivate students and Maintain Discipline could result in positive affect while teaching and at situations which is called as a teacher. Also it was clarified that having self-efficacy in education could result in positive affect at situations which is called as a teacher.
amir alambaigi
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The main aim of research was to investigate factors which distinct two categories of intention in Business Startup Behavior Based on students' entrepreneurial passion among University students. Research method was descriptive correlation study. The statistical population comprised of senior and junior ...
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The main aim of research was to investigate factors which distinct two categories of intention in Business Startup Behavior Based on students' entrepreneurial passion among University students. Research method was descriptive correlation study. The statistical population comprised of senior and junior undergraduate students as well as graduate students of the University College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Tehran University. 205 students were selected using the Daniel formula through quota sampling method. Research instrument was a questionnaire whose validity and reliability were reviewed and approved. A dominant statistical method was binary logistic regression. The results of this empirical study indicate that a significant variable in predicting entrepreneurial passion is entrepreneurship Intention. It was also found that only students who have experienced high levels of entrepreneurial passion, experience a salient intention to startup businesses. The results of the sensitivity analysis for logit models showed satisfied performance in the separation of intentions levels according to entrepreneurial passion. Also experiences in entrepreneurship course could result in willingness among students to start a business but did not show significant role of gender in this regard.
