Studying the Relationship between Teachers' Professional Qualities and Students' Entrepreneurial Motivation and Spirit

This study investigated the impact of teachers' professional qualities on the students' entrepreneurial motivation and Spirit in the female vocational schools of Hamadan. The statistical population of this descriptive and correlational research included 799 students in the academic years of 1396-1397. According to the stratified random sampling of Kergcie and Morgan table, a sample of 260 students was selected. Three standard questionnaires were used: Teachers' Professional Qualities, Entrepreneurial Spirit and Entrepreneurial motivation. The face and content validity of the questionnaires were examined and their reliability measures, according to Cronbach's alpha, were calculated to be .93, .88 and .85, respectively. The data was analyzed by using SPSS and Lisrel softwares. The results showed that there was a positive meaningful relationship between the teachers' professional qualities and the students' entrepreneurial motivation and spirit. However, it was observed that the indirect effect of the teachers' professional qualities on the students' entrepreneurial spirit with the mediating role of entrepreneurial motivation was not meaningful.