Modeling the Influences of Social Capital on Formation of Student Entrepreneurial Character

Abstract

The values of social capital can be utilized in the context of shaping the entrepreneurial character and can be integrated into the learning process. The purpose of this research is to find out the structural equation modeling that illustrates the role of social capital in the formation of the student entrepreneurial character in the educational process. This research is explanatory research adopting the quantitative approach, along with the survey method to report the measurement of social capital on the entrepreneurial character of students. The population in this study were all the fourth and sixth semester students of the Academic Year 2017/2018 at the University of AMIKOM Yogyakarta. The samples taken from this research population used the stratified cluster random sampling technique. The number of samples in this research was 360 respondents. The results showed that social capital had a path coefficient with the entrepreneurial character of 0.77 shows a positive number and is quite high. This research concludes that social capital has a significant influence on the students' entrepreneurial character with a p-value ≥ 0.05, and a p-value of 0.17863. Social capital owned by the campus is utilized by the students well, it will support the formation of the entrepreneurial character.