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September 10, 2026Journal of Innovation and EntrepreneurshipOpen Access

Socioemotional skills training and agribusiness entrepreneurial motivation among educated youth: experimental evidence from Nigeria

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Randomized trial shows socioemotional training increases agribusiness motivation among educated youth, suggesting brief psychological interventions boost entrepreneurial drive.

Key Points

  • Evaluate the impact of socioemotional and digital skills training modules integrated into an agribusiness curriculum on entrepreneurial motivation among educated youth.
  • Three-arm cluster-randomized trial conducted among National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members in Nigeria.
  • Participants were randomly assigned to agribusiness training alone (control), agribusiness plus a 2-hour socioemotional skills session (T1), or agribusiness plus socioemotional and digital skills sessions (T2).
  • Primary outcomes evaluated at 4 months post-training included a generalized least squares (GLS)-weighted Anderson motivation index and stated intentions to start, formalize, and save for an agribusiness, analyzed using ANCOVA.
  • Socioemotional skills training alone (T1) increased the entrepreneurial motivation index by 0.216 standard deviations compared to control.
  • Effects of T1 on individual binary outcomes (intentions to start, formalize, and save) were positive but small and not individually statistically significant.
  • Adding digital skills training (T2) eliminated the motivational gains observed in the socioemotional-alone arm.

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Khadijat Busola Amolegbe (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aa27bbd58559d80afc751d2https://doi.org/10.1186/s13731-026-00717-7
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