Analisis Faktor-Faktor yang Mempengaruhi Minat Mahasiswa Berwirausaha (Studi Kasus Mahasiswa FMIPA USU)

Abstract

ABSTRACT One of the government's efforts to overcome unemployment problem is by giving support for the establishment of independent business for society. One of them is by gaining students’ entrepreneurship motivation through entrepreneurial activity. There are many variables that may influence students’ motivation in entrepreneurship. The aim of this study is to describe the diversity of these variables then summarize them in order to obtain a dominant factor by using factor analysis techniques. The process of analysis factor is to find the relationship between each independent variable, so that one or a set of variables that less in number than the initial variables can be derived. Based on the overall results, the overall variable was valid with rhitung ≥ 0,202 and overall variable with higher reliability with Cronbach Alpha was > 0,6. The reduction process by implementing component analysis towards the variables that underlying students’ motivation in entrepreneurship of Science Faculty of USU, there were five factors that influence their major motivation: personality (26,102%), motivation (11,174%), family (9,028%), environment (8,316%), and motive (7,635%). These five factors provide diversity in cumulative proportion about 62,255% which mean 62,255% these five factors influence students’ motivation in entrepreneurship and the rest were influenced by other factors that were not identified by the research. Keywords: Entrepreneurship Motivation, Factor Analysis, Principal Component Analysis