An Empirical Study on the Impact and Underlying Mechanism of Perceived Educational Discrimination on Employment Anxiety among Junior College Students
To explore the impact and mechanism of perceived educational discrimination on employ-ment anxiety among junior college students,a questionnaire survey was conducted on 1230 junior college students using the Educational Discrimination Perception Scale,Employment Anxiety Questionnaire,Learn-ing Engagement Scale,and Professional Identity Questionnaire.The results showed that there was a signifi-cant pairwise correlation between perceived educational discrimination,learning engagement,professional identity,and employment anxiety;The perception of educational discrimination not only has a direct and significant positive predictive effect on employment anxiety among junior college students,but also has a mediating effect on employment anxiety among junior college students through learning engagement;In the first half of the mediating effect of professional identity on learning engagement,specifically,when the level of professional identity is low,the perception of educational discrimination has a stronger negative predic-tive effect on learning engagement.The study reveals the mechanism by which the perception of educational discrimination affects the employment anxiety of junior college students,deepening our understanding of their employment psychology and behavior,and providing empirical evidence for the intervention of junior college students'employment anxiety and educational discrimination perception.
perception of educational discriminationjunior collegeemployment anxietylearning en-gagementprofessional identification