ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LITERACY AND DIGITAL RESILIENCE AS PREDICTORS OF BUSINESS EDUCATION STUDENTS’ CYBERPRENEURIAL INTENTION IN EDO STATE
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Artificial Intelligence Literacy, Business Education, Cyberpreneurial Intention, Digital ResilienceAbstract
The rising rate of graduate unemployment in Nigeria has heightened the need to equip business education students with digital competencies capable of driving job creation. The study evaluated the extent to which artificial intelligence literacy and digital resilience predict business education students’ cyberpreneurial intention in Edo State, adopting a correlational survey research design. Three research questions were addressed, while three hypotheses were tested at the .05 level of significance. The population comprised 481 business education students from Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, and the University of Benin. Data were collected using the Artificial Intelligence Literacy, Digital Resilience, and Cyberpreneurial Intention Questionnaire (AILDRASIQ), which was validated by two experts. The reliability coefficients obtained using Cronbach’s alpha were .88 for artificial intelligence literacy, .82 for digital resilience, and .85 for cyberpreneurial intention following administration to 30 business education students at Delta State University, Abraka. Simple linear regression and multiple regression were used to analyze the data. The results demonstrated that artificial intelligence literacy and digital resilience individually and jointly predicted business education students’ cyberpreneurial intention in Edo State. The findings imply that deliberate efforts should be made to review the curriculum to incorporate AI literacy, digital business tools, and resilience-building digital learning experiences to enhance students’ readiness for cyberpreneurship. The study addressed a research gap by examining the relatively underexplored relationship among AI literacy, digital resilience, and cyberpreneurial intention. Based on the findings, it was recommended that students be introduced to emerging AI tools that can facilitate digital business operations.
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