A Comparison of PROCESS and SEM Approaches for Analyzing the Impact of Social Support and Psychological Resilience on Employment Pressure

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10.2991/978-94-6463-750-2_3How to use a DOI?

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psychological resilience; social support; employment pressure; mediation analysis; PROCESS; SEM (structural equation modeling)

Abstract

This study explores how mental resilience mediates the relationship between social support and employment pressure in recent graduates, highlighting how resilience can help leverage social support to ease job-related stress and improve mental health and adaptability. A sample of 434 dance major graduates from Changsha Normal University in Hunan, China, was surveyed during the fall semester of 2023. The primary objective was to understand how psychological resilience might influence the connection between the support received from social networks and the pressure felt by graduates as they enter the job market. To analyze this, mediation analysis was conducted using both PROCESS and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), two widely used approaches in social science research. The results demonstrated that psychological resilience partially links social support to job-related stress, indicating that those with higher resilience experience less pressure when they have a supportive social network. Both methods—SPSS-Process and SEM—yielded models with a good fit. However, the findings highlight that SEM is a more suitable and effective method for estimating mediation models, particularly when dealing with complex frameworks involving latent variables, as it provides a deeper understanding of underlying constructs and relationships.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Qiwang Zhang
AU  - Jing Huang
AU  - Jiechun Duan
AU  - Shujing Wu
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/06/15
TI  - A Comparison of PROCESS and SEM Approaches for Analyzing the Impact of Social Support and Psychological Resilience on Employment Pressure
BT  - Proceedings of the 2025 4th International Conference on Educational Innovation and Multimedia Technology (EIMT 2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 13
EP  - 22
SN  - 2667-128X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-750-2_3
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-750-2_3
ID  - Zhang2025
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