The Development of an Employment Anxiety Scale for Chinese College Graduates.

This study aims to develop an employment anxiety scale for Chinese college graduates, providing a tool for subsequent research on employment anxiety in China. The exploratory factor analysis (EFA) identified two factors: "Cognitive Expectations" and "Somatic Symptoms." The confirmatory factor analys...

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Publicado en:Health & Social Care in the Community Vol. 2025; pp. 1 - 11
Autores principales: Wang, Weidong, Hu, Yisong, Li, Chunkai
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell 4/4/2025
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          Wang, Weidong
          Hu, Yisong
          Li, Chunkai
        affil: National Survey Research Center, , Renmin University of China, , No. 59 Zhongguancun Street Haidian District, Beijing, 100872, , China, ruc.edu.cn
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          Instrument Construction
          Instrument Validation
          Scales
          Anxiety Evaluation
          Employment Psychosocial Factors
          Students, College Psychosocial Factors
          Students, Graduate Psychosocial Factors
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          Human
          China
          Validation Studies
          Factor Analysis
          Internal Consistency
          Reliability
          State-Trait Anxiety Inventory
          Psychological Tests
          Sex Factors
          Male
          Female
          Students, Undergraduate
          Reliability and Validity
          Intention
          Questionnaires
          Data Analysis Software
          Descriptive Statistics
          Discriminant Validity
          Pearson's Correlation Coefficient
          Self-Rating Anxiety Scale
          Structural Equation Modeling
          Coefficient alpha
          Criterion-Related Validity
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          Item Analysis
          Male
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      ab: This study aims to develop an employment anxiety scale for Chinese college graduates, providing a tool for subsequent research on employment anxiety in China. The exploratory factor analysis (EFA) identified two factors: "Cognitive Expectations" and "Somatic Symptoms." The confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) results suggested that retaining 14 key items led to a good model fit, confirming the EFA results. The internal consistency reliability of the scale was 0.9254. Correlation analysis between the self‐constructed scale and the State–Trait Anxiety Inventory indicated high validity of the self‐constructed scale. Graduates' anxiety scale scores varied by different sociodemographic characteristics. Female graduates, undergraduates, and graduates from regular colleges scored higher on the anxiety scale. The self‐constructed employment anxiety scale for college graduates demonstrated good reliability and validity, making it a suitable tool for measuring employment anxiety among college graduates. Furthermore, it holds significant potential for informing targeted interventions by universities to address key aspects of employment anxiety and for evaluating the effectiveness of employment‐related policies, ultimately supporting graduate well‐being and improving outcomes in the transition to the workforce.
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