Social Media Use and Entrepreneurial Intention: The Role of Students' Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy

Nur Ika Effendi (Muara Bungo University, Management Study Program)
Risni Nelvia (Muara Bungo University, Accounting Study Program)
Yopi Eka Anroni (Metadata University, Digital Business Study Program)
Isman Isman (Muara Bungo University, Accounting Study Program)
Wahyu Faisa Rika Sandi (Muara Bungo University, Accounting Study Program)

Nomico
Vol. 2 No. 6 (2025): Nomico - July

Digitalization can change the mindset and the way students access information, as well as their desire to start a business or their interest in entrepreneurship. This study aims to determine the effect of social media on students' intention in entrepreneurship, with self-efficacy as an intervening variable, among students at Muara Bungo University. The study employed a quantitative approach, utilizing questionnaires to collect data from 101 students selected from all active students in the even semester of the 2024/2025 academic year, via proportionate stratified random sampling. Based on data processing Smart-PLS 4 statistical tool, the study found that social media and self-efficacy have a positive and significant effect on entrepreneurial interest, partial and simultaneous. Self-efficacy partially mediates the relationship between social media and entrepreneurial interest. It is hoped that universities, especially Muara Bungo University, can strengthen self-efficacy development programs and utilize social media as a learning tool to increase students' interest in entrepreneurship. This approach can help students create jobs in the future and increase economic growth in Bungo Regency.