Mao Eric Zeqing, Zhao Lishou
School of Cultural Creativity and Management, Communication University of Zhejiang, Hangzhou, China.
Front Psychol. 2023 Feb 22;14:1101674. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1101674. eCollection 2023.
Resulting from an enlarged number of graduating college students and shrinkage of work opportunities, stress in relation to job search and employment is becoming an increasingly noticeable issue in China. Previous psychiatry research has suggested that social support can be conducive to reducing stress from multiple sources, while the effectiveness hinges on whether it is actually recognized and perceived by the recipients. The prevalence of social media has greatly facilitated the communication and exchange of social support information. However, they can also lead to overuse and addiction problems. This study aims to investigate how job search stress affects graduating college students' social media addiction severity using a serial mediation model and test the potential moderation effect of sense of coherence. Based on a sample of graduating college students ( = 144), our findings point out a significant pathway for the impacts of stress sequentially through seeking of social support and perceived social support. Furthermore, job search stress seems to have pronounced effects on the psychological need for social support only at low- and mid-levels of sense of coherence.
由于大学毕业生数量增加以及工作机会减少，与求职和就业相关的压力在中国正成为一个日益显著的问题。先前的精神病学研究表明，社会支持有助于减轻多种来源的压力，但其效果取决于接受者是否真正认可和感受到。社交媒体的普及极大地促进了社会支持信息的交流。然而，它们也可能导致过度使用和成瘾问题。本研究旨在使用序列中介模型调查求职压力如何影响应届大学毕业生的社交媒体成瘾严重程度，并检验连贯感的潜在调节作用。基于应届大学毕业生样本（n = 144），我们的研究结果指出了压力通过寻求社会支持和感知社会支持依次产生影响的一条重要途径。此外，求职压力似乎仅在低和中等水平的连贯感时对社会支持的心理需求有显著影响。
