Table 5.
Regression analysis results, with professional accomplishment as outcome and psychological capital as mediator.
| Predictors | Path Coefficients | a × b (BCa 95% CI) | R2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| c | a | b | c’ | |||
| Males | ||||||
| Extrinsic effort | 0.038 | ‒0.228 ** | 0.087 | 0.058 | ‒0.019 (‒0.045,‒0.003) | 0.051 |
| Reward | 0.156 ** | 0.223 ** | 0.048 | 0.146 ** | 0.011 (‒0.007, 0.034) | 0.066 |
| Overcommitment | 0.003 | ‒0.056 | 0.076 | 0.007 | ‒0.005 (‒0.019, 0.002) | 0.048 |
| Females | ||||||
| Extrinsic effort | ‒0.003 | ‒0.286 ** | 0.192 ** | 0.052 | ‒0.055 (‒0.081, ‒0.033) | 0.062 |
| Reward | 0.191 ** | 0.237 ** | 0.138 ** | 0.158 ** | 0.033 (0.015, 0.054) | 0.083 |
| Overcommitment | ‒0.023 | ‒0.162 ** | 0.177 ** | 0.005 | ‒0.029 (‒0.048, ‒0.015) | 0.060 |
Notes: c: associations of extrinsic effort, reward and overcommitment with professional accomplishment; a: associations of extrinsic effort, reward and overcommitment with PsyCap; b: association between PsyCap and professional accomplishment after controlling for the predictor variables; c’: associations of extrinsic effort, reward and overcommitment with professional accomplishment after adding PsyCap as mediator; a × b: the product of a and b; BCa 95% CI: the bias-corrected and accelerated 95% confidence interval age, marital status, education and weekly work time are covariates; ** significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).