Obstacles open the door — Negative shocks can motivate individuals to focus on opportunities

Frontiers of Business Research in China

Table 3 Regression results for testing mediation in Hypothesis 1^a

Variable and statistic	Outcome: Internal social capital	Outcome: Focus on opportunities
Constant	3.43^***	2.86^***
Gender	−0.08	−0.02
Age	0.02	−0.02
Tenure	−0.03	−0.01
Education	−0.15	0.10
Negative career shocks	0.38^**	0.21
Internal social capital		0.27^***
F	2.48	5.22
R²	0.06	0.13

^aNotes. Bootstrap sample size = 5000. Results were reported after controlling for age, gender, tenure, education and perceived remaining time. ^*p < 0.05, ^**p < 0.01, ^***p < 0.001