Figure 1.
The flowchart presents three sections titled inputs, mediators, and outcomes. The inputs section includes high resource demands, and resource threats and losses. These lead to mediators that include problem focused coping, emotion focused coping, leveraging collective resources, and identity work as coping with founder identity and startup identity. These mediators connect to a positive pathway that includes reduced loss spirals, initiation of gain cycles, and sustained entrepreneurial functioning. The inputs also connect to maladaptive coping, which leads to a negative pathway that includes accelerated loss spirals, and burnout and exhaustion.A COR-based model of startup founders’ coping with the dark side of entrepreneurship