Self-efficacy as a Factor of Interest in Student of 9th Vocational High School Bandung

Abstract

Vocational High School graduates are expected to become entrepreneurs, apart from working or continuing their studies. Based on data in the last three years, not a single student who graduated from SMKN 9 Bandung has become an entrepreneur. An entrepreneur is influenced by various factors from within the student or from outside the student. One of the factors that influence the interest in entrepreneurship from within students is self-efficacy. This study aims to analyze interest in entrepreneurship from self-efficacy factors. The research method used is cross sectional. The population in this study were 510 students from the Culinary Department, with a sample of 101 students determined purposively, namely students who had passed the Creative Product and Entrepreneurship subject. The research instrument used was a questionnaire with a Likert scale with four alternative answers, namely strongly agree, agree, disagree and strongly disagree. Data collection was carried out in December 2022. The results showed that the average percentage of students' self-efficacy factor answers was 20% stating that they strongly agreed, 74% agreed and 6% disagreed. The actual average score is 318 from the ideal score of 404, this shows that students' self-efficacy in the interest of entrepreneurship is in the high category. The recommendations in this study are that educators are expected to be able to encourage students to realize an interest in the form of entrepreneurship. The recommendations in this study are that educators are expected to be able to encourage students to realize an interest in the form of entrepreneurship.