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• Operational skills positively affect information skills and creative skills. • Information skills, operational skills, and creative skills positively affect entrepreneurial self-perceived creativity. • Entrepreneurial self-perceived creativity positively affects attitude towards digital entrepreneurship and digital entrepreneurial intention. • Attitude towards digital entrepreneurship positively affects digital entrepreneurial intention. • Technology anxiety negatively affects entrepreneurial self-perceived creativity and attitude towards digital entrepreneurship. This study, anchored in the Stimulus-Organism-Response theory, aims to explore how ICT skills-related stimuli (information skills, operational skills, and creative skills) stimulate cognitive organisms (entrepreneurial self-perceived creativity), which, in turn, increases behavioral responses (attitude towards digital entrepreneurship and digital entrepreneurial intention) as well as investigate the detrimental effects of technology anxiety. Employing a cross-sectional design, the study leverages data from a sample of 604 higher education students across six universities in Vietnam. Hypotheses are assessed using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The results reveal positive influences of operational, informational, and creative skills on entrepreneurial self-perceived creativity, which significantly affected attitudes toward digital entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial intention. While technology anxiety negatively impacts entrepreneurial self-perceived creativity and attitudes toward digital entrepreneurship, its significant influence on digital entrepreneurial intention is not observed. The study also unveils the mediating role of entrepreneurial self-perceived creativity in the relationship between ICT skills, technology anxiety, and attitudes toward digital entrepreneurship and digital entrepreneurial intention. The research contributes to the theoretical understanding of digital entrepreneurial ventures, shedding light on the intricate dynamics among ICT skills, entrepreneurial self-perceived creativity, technology anxiety, and entrepreneurial responses. It also explores the applicability of the SOR model in emerging economies, providing valuable insights into the digital entrepreneurial landscape. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scholars have recognized the need for further research to explore the role of institutional factors in social entrepreneurship (SE) within emerging markets (Urban and Kujinga, 2017). In response, this study investigates how the institutional environment influences the antecedents of social entrepreneurial intention (SEI) in Vietnam by expanding the SEI model of Mair and Noboa (2006). Drawing data from 401 university students in Vietnam, this study employed Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to examine the research hypotheses and model. The results reveal that social entrepreneurial self-efficacy (SES) and perceived social support (PSS) significantly and positively influence the intention to become a social entrepreneur, while empathy (EMP) and moral obligation (MO) show no effect. Furthermore, the institutional environment, comprising the regulatory dimension (RD), normative dimension (ND), and cognitive dimension (CD), plays a crucial role in boosting EMP, MO, SES, and PSS. This study contributes to SE literature by extending established intention models with the inclusion of institutional dimensions. Additionally, the findings of this study imply that policymakers should design SE-supportive policies and regulations, and create a culture that values and promotes SE in order to encourage social innovation and reduce barriers to entry for social ventures. Educators should also increase opportunities for students to experience SE and develop entrepreneurial skills in order to enhance their perception of cognitive and normative environments, making SE a more attractive career option. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this study is to utilize the Social Cognitive Career Theory and a serial mediation model to reduce the discrepancy between entrepreneurial intentions and actions. The study aims to explore the direct influences of cultural values and expound on the serial mediation effects of entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intention in connecting cultural values to entrepreneurial behaviors. Besides, the moderation role of entrepreneurial education is also considered in this study. A sample of 1612 master students from nine universities/institutions in three main regions of Vietnam and Structural Equation Modelling with Gaskin's (2019) plugin and 5000 bootstrapping sample was used to test formulated hypotheses. Also, a multi-group analysis was approached to illustrate the difference between students who received entrepreneurial education and those who did not receive entrepreneurial education. The research reveals that both entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intention are strongly and positively related to entrepreneurial behaviors. Cultural values significantly affected entrepreneurial self-efficacy, entrepreneurial intentions, and entrepreneurial actions. In addition, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intentions also serve as serial mediators in the relation between cultural values and startup actions. Moreover, our study has demonstrated the significant moderation role of entrepreneurial education on these links. This study is expected to have significant contributions to entrepreneurship field by closing the intention-action gap in entrepreneurship, broadening our extant knowledge related to the serial indirect effects of cultural values on entrepreneurial actions through entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intentions, and demonstrating the moderating role entrepreneurial education. Additionally, this study provides the appropriate recommendations for policymakers, educators, and students to inspire entrepreneurial activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although the recognition of the importance of religious beliefs on entrepreneurship, the impact of karmic beliefs on social entrepreneurship has not been thoroughly explored. This research aims to fill that gap by adopting a morally extended theory of planned behavior and developing a moderated mediation model to investigate the role of karmic beliefs in shaping individuals' social entrepreneurial intention underlying the moderated mediation effects of environmental complexity and empathy. The study was performed on a sample of 401 undergraduate students in Vietnam, using the model 4 and the model 7 in PROCESS macro approach to test the hypothesized model. The research revealed that empathy not only positively and directly correlated with social entrepreneurial intentions, but also positively and partially mediated the effect of karmic beliefs on social entrepreneurial intentions. Environmental complexity was found to negatively moderate the impact of karmic beliefs on empathy. Noticeably, our study also indicated that the mediation impact of empathy on the relationship between karmic beliefs was negatively moderated by environmental complexity. The findings of this research thus shed new light on entrepreneurial literature by using the moral extended theory of planned behaviors to examine the underlying moderated mediation mechanisms of environmental complexity and empathy on the relationship between karmic beliefs and social entrepreneurial intentions. Based on the findings of the research, some valuable recommendations and implications for policymakers and practitioners have been offered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Little is known about the impacts of covid-19 pandemic on mental health problems among youth population whereas this information is extremely necessary to develop appropriate actions to support these young people overcoming psychological crisis and increasing satisfaction with life during the disease outbreak. This study not only explores the influences of fear and anxiety of covid-19 on life satisfaction, but it also examines the mediating roles of psychological distress and sleep disturbance in this linkage. 1521 students from universities in Vietnam was assessed utilizing the online-based cross-sectional survey. The study revealed that fear and anxiety of covid-19 was strongly related to psychological distress and sleep disturbance and life satisfaction among Vietnamese university students. Also, life satisfaction was found to have a strong and negative association with psychological distress, but without sleep disturbance. Moreover, the findings of the study revealed that fear and anxiety of covid-19 reduced life satisfaction and increased sleep disturbance via psychological distress. This study was expected to contribute to the extant literature by enriching our understanding the serious impacts of covid-19 pandemic on youths' mental health as well as provide some useful references for policy makers to prevent the occurrence of psychological crisis among university students. [Display omitted] • Fear and anxiety of covid-19 was strongly related to psychological distress. • Psychological distress was negatively associated with life satisfaction. • Fear and anxiety of covid-19 reduced life satisfaction. • Fear and anxiety of covid-19 increased sleep disturbance. • Persons with mental illness were higher affected by fear and anxiety of covid-19. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]