Upon graduation, students make the decision to either become an entrepreneur or an employee. Numerous studies have thus investigated personal and environmental factors that impact this decision. As cognitive styles have become more and more important in determining individual and organisational behaviour, and as they are presumed to provide new valuable insights over and above other personal factors, they provide the ideal focus to further explore this career choice. In this article, we aim to explore how creating, planning, and knowing cognitive style relate to entrepreneurial attitudes, intentions, and career choices. Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour, in a first sample, we investigate the direct and indirect impact that cognitive styles have on entrepreneurial intention through attitudes. In our second sample, we look at how career preferences for entrepreneurship or a more traditional career as an employee are affected by cognitive styles. Using structural equation modelling analysis, this study finds evidence for the importance of creating cognitive style on entrepreneurial outcomes. Additionally, we find evidence for the relationship between planning cognitive style and wanting to be an employee. Knowing style does not lead to either preference. This paper extends the current knowledge on cognitive styles and entrepreneurship by analysing the impact of other cognitive styles than the predominantly used innovative styles and by also exploring its impact on important antecedents of entrepreneurial intentions, such as entrepreneurial attitude and career preferences.

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创业职业的选择：认知风格很重要吗？

毕业后，学生决定成为企业家或雇员。因此，许多研究调查了影响这一决定的个人和环境因素。随着认知风格在确定个人和组织行为中变得越来越重要，并且假定它们会提供超越其他个人因素的新的有价值的见解，它们为进一步探索这一职业选择提供了理想的关注点。在本文中，我们旨在探讨如何创建，规划和了解认知风格与企业家的态度，意图和职业选择之间的关系。在第一个样本中，使用计划行为理论，我们通过态度调查了认知风格对创业意向的直接和间接影响。在我们的第二个样本中 我们研究了企业家的职业偏好或作为雇员的更传统的职业如何受到认知方式的影响。通过使用结构方程模型分析，本研究发现了建立认知风格对创业成果的重要性的证据。此外，我们发现了计划认知风格与想成为一名雇员之间的关系的证据。知道风格不会导致任何偏爱。本文通过分析除主要使用的创新风格以外的其他认知风格的影响，并通过探索其对创业意向的重要先决条件（如创业态度和职业偏好）的影响，扩展了当前关于认知风格和企业家精神的知识。