Perceived Stress and Mental Health Literacy Among Chinese Preschool Teachers: A Moderated Mediation Model of Anxiety and Career Resilience

Figures & data

Figure 1 The moderated mediation model.

Table 1 Descriptive Statistics and Correlations Among Variables

	M	SD	1	2	3	4
1. perceived stress	2.55	0.52	1
2. mental health literacy	0.57	0.18	−0.49**	1
3. anxiety	35.10	8.87	0.52**	−0.34**	1
4. career resilience	3.64	0.40	−0.58**	0.45**	−0.53**	1

Notes: **p < 0.01.

Table 2 Testing the Moderated Mediation Effect of Perceived Stress on Mental Health Literacy

Outcome Variable	Predictors	R^2	F	β	t
Anxiety		0.36	217.26***
	Gender			0.06	0.59
	Teaching experience			0.01	2.56*
	Education level			0.09	3.87**
	Perceived stress			0.34	16.14***
	Career resilience			−0.33	−16.28***
	Perceived stress× career resilience			−0.04	−2.61**
MHL		0.25	157.43***
	Gender			0.10	0.91
	Teaching experience			−0.01	−0.73
	Education level			0.09	3.50**
	Perceived stress			−0.42	−20.00***
	Anxiety			−0.13	−6.26***

Notes: ***p < 0.001, **p < 0.01, *p < 0.05.

Table 3 Mediating Effects of Anxiety and Moderating Effects of Career Resilience

	Career Resilience	Effect value	Boot SE	Boot CI Lower	Boot CI Upper
Mediating effects of anxiety	−1.000	−0.050	0.009	−0.069	−0.032
	0.000	−0.045	0.007	−0.061	−0.029
	1.000	−0.039	0.007	−0.054	−0.026

Figure 2 Simple slope analysis shows that career resilience moderated the relation between perceived stress and anxiety.