Youth anxiety in an age of uncertainty: future insecurity, career stress, and the mechanisms of identity exploration during major life transitions (opens in new tab)

This study examines how young adults in China experience well-being under conditions of social uncertainty, focusing on the joint associations among future anxiety, career stress, identity exploration, rural normative pressure, and subjective well-being. Informed by cultural-psychological perspectives, the proposed model integrates multiple indirect associations and contextual moderation within a single structural framework. Using survey data from 260 undergraduate students, structural equati...