Intrinsic Motivation – A Strategic Tool For Entrepreneurial Intention

Abstract

Entrepreneurial society evolved based on conditions like grabbing the opportunity, motivation and means to attain goals. To become an entrepreneur college students, need motivation either in form of willingness to become an entrepreneur or it has to be their need to become entrepreneurs this act will result in finding opportunities in the market (Angela Mota et.al, 2019). As motivation plays a vital role among students to become an entrepreneur, it becomes important to understand their motivation level (intrinsic motivation level), the current study tries to validate an intrinsic motivation inventory adopted by Mc Auley, Duncan, and Tammen (1987), so that this inventory can be used to understand the motivation level among students that can inspire them to become entrepreneurs. A study is conducted among 1037 participants from a higher education institution situated in Madurai. Jamovi open-source software 2.3.21 is used to validate the inventory. The validated scale shows good model fit. The procedure of validation is discussed in this study