Yang Mengshan, Li Xin, Qin Xiaoye, Tian Xusheng, Zhang Hao, Wen Hongjuan
School of Economics, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Zhejiang, Hangzhou, China.
School of Statistics and Mathematics, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Zhejiang, Hangzhou, China.
Front Psychiatry. 2025 Jun 3;16:1602808. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1602808. eCollection 2025.
University graduates increasingly face academic and employment-related pressures, particularly in the post-COVID-19 era. Employment anxiety has emerged as a significant mental health issue during the transition from school to work, but its underlying mechanisms remain underexplored.
This study aimed to investigate the mediating role of psychological resilience in the relationship between academic stress and employment anxiety among Chinese undergraduate students.
A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 1124 students from three universities in China. Participants completed validated measures of academic stress, psychological resilience, and employment anxiety. Pearson correlation analysis and mediation testing were performed using PROCESS macro Model 4, with 5000 bootstrap samples.
Academic stress was positively associated with employment anxiety (=0.421, <0.001) and negatively associated with psychological resilience (=-0.230, <0.001). Psychological resilience negatively predicted employment anxiety (= -0.444, <0.001) and partially mediated the relationship between academic stress and employment anxiety. The indirect effect accounted for 19.50% of the total effect. After controlling for gender, grade, family income, and internship experience, the mediation remained significant and robust.
Psychological resilience plays a protective mediating role in the link between academic stress and employment anxiety. These findings underscore the importance of enhancing resilience through targeted interventions to reduce employment-related anxiety among university students. Educational institutions should integrate resilience-building strategies into academic and career counseling to promote student mental health and employability.
大学毕业生面临的学业和就业相关压力日益增大，尤其是在新冠疫情后的时代。在从学校过渡到工作的过程中，就业焦虑已成为一个重大的心理健康问题，但其潜在机制仍未得到充分探索。
本研究旨在探讨心理韧性在中国本科生学业压力与就业焦虑关系中的中介作用。
对来自中国三所大学的1124名学生进行了横断面调查。参与者完成了关于学业压力、心理韧性和就业焦虑的有效测量。使用PROCESS宏模型4进行Pearson相关分析和中介检验，共5000个自抽样样本。
学业压力与就业焦虑呈正相关（=0.421，<0.001），与心理韧性呈负相关（=-0.230，<0.001）。心理韧性对就业焦虑有负向预测作用（=-0.444，<0.001），并部分中介了学业压力与就业焦虑之间的关系。间接效应占总效应的19.50%。在控制了性别、年级、家庭收入和实习经历后，中介作用仍然显著且稳健。
心理韧性在学业压力与就业焦虑之间的联系中起保护性中介作用。这些发现强调了通过有针对性的干预措施增强韧性以减少大学生就业相关焦虑的重要性。教育机构应将韧性培养策略纳入学术和职业咨询中，以促进学生的心理健康和就业能力。
