Malaysian secondary students' resilience and entrepreneurial readiness

Abstract

This study aims to identify the level of entrepreneurship readiness and resilience of secondary school students in Selangor, Malaysia. This is measured through three elements-the student's readiness of attitude, readiness in learning, and spiritual readiness-with resilience measured using six elements: social skills, problem solving, autonomy, optimism, humor and spirituality. This study also identifies the correlation between students' entrepreneurship readiness and entrepreneurship resilience with a quantitative, survey-based approach involving 442 secondary school students. The data obtained were analyzed by descriptive and inference forms; the study's findings reveal moderate levels of entrepreneurship readiness and resilience among the surveyed secondary school students. Meanwhile, Pearson's correlation analysis demonstrates that a positive relationship exists (r=0.747) between entrepreneurship readiness and resilience among secondary school students. This study provides assistance to the parties involved with secondary school education, or specifically, in designing and planning entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurship training to improve entrepreneurial learning practice, students' interest and enthusiasm towards entrepreneurship. Consequently, this will enhance students' self-resilience, which indirectly creates competent and sophisticated societies.