PENGARUH SELF-EFFICACY, PERCEIVED BEHAVIORAL CONTROL DAN ATTITUDE TOWARDS ENTREPRENEURSHIP TERHADAP WOMAN’S ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION DI PULAU JAWA SELAMA MASA PANDEMI COVID-19

Abstract

Entrepreneurship is very important for Indonesian economy, yet the number of women entrepreneurs in Indonesia is still very low, based on IWAPI data ini 2018, only 14 million of 60 million SMEs in Indonesia are managed by women. There are so many challenges and steep paths for women to become entrepreneurs, therefore being a womanpreneur is not easy. One of the challenges that must be faced by entrepreneurs is COVID-19 pandemic, this pandemic has hit the earth since the end of 2019. The purpose of this study is to analyze the influence of self-efficacy, perceived behavioral control, and attitude towards entrepreneurship on woman’s entrepreneurial intention in Java island during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study is a quantitative research and using questionnaire to collect data. The sample of this sudy is 98 women aged 18-55 years who live in Java. . Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is taken to analyze the data that has been collected and to test the proposed hypothesis. The result show that self-efficacy not significantly influences woman’s entrepreneurial intention in Java island during the COVID-19 pandemic. Besides, this study show that perceived behavioral control and attitude towards entrepreneurship significantly influence woman’s entrepreneurial intention in Java island during the COVID-19 pandemic.