Thesis:

The Effect of Entrepreneurial Management Style on the Development of Life Skills and Sense of Belonging to School in Second Grade Male Elementary School Students in Sabzevar County in the Academic Year 2025

The present study aimed to investigate the effect of entrepreneurial management style on the development of life skills and sense of belonging to school in male students of the second grade of elementary school in Sabzevar city in the academic year 2025. This is a descriptive study of post-event correlation. This study is an applied research in terms of research type and purpose. The population of the present study was all male students of the second grade of elementary school in Sabzevar city in the academic year 2025, numbering 1385 students. According to Morgan's table, 145 people were selected randomly from each of the fourth, fifth and sixth grades. The questionnaires of life skills of Saatchi et al. (2000), the entrepreneurship questionnaire of Hill (1996) and the questionnaire of sense of belonging to school of Barry et al. (2004) were distributed among them, and in the end, due to the dropout, 130 people formed the statistical sample of the study. In this study, the data were analyzed using SPSS 28 software. Inferential and descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data. Descriptive statistics were used to examine and compare the mean and standard deviation of the variables, and to examine the hypotheses, structural equation modeling (SEM) with partial least squares (PLS) approach was used using Smart PLS 3 software. The results showed that the study of the effect coefficient of entrepreneurial management on life skills and sense of belonging to school showed that this path coefficient was estimated at 0.830 and 0.813. Considering the partial index (p-value) which is less than 0.05 and also the significant number which is equal to 218.40 and 158.23 and is greater than 1.96, it can be concluded that this path coefficient is significant at the 0.05 error level; that is, entrepreneurial management has a significant positive effect on life skills and sense of belonging to school. Also, according to the R2 coefficient, it can be stated that approximately 72.5 percent of the changes in life skills and 70.5 percent of the changes in and sense of belonging to school are predicted by entrepreneurial management. .

Keywords: Keywords: Entrepreneurial management style, development of life skills, sense of belonging to school