Table 6.

Bootstrap tests for four independent parallel mediating paths (N = 509), 5,000 resamples).

Mediating path	Unstandardized indirect effect	Standard error	95% Lower CI	95% Upper CI	Significance
Parental psychological control → Identified regulation → Employment anxiety	−0.0205	0.009	−0.041	−0.005	Significant
Parental psychological control → External regulation → Employment anxiety	−0.0155	0.008	−0.033	−0.002	Significant
Career decision-making self-efficacy → Identified regulation → Employment anxiety	0.1291	0.035	0.068	0.203	Significant
Career decision-making self-efficacy → External regulation → Employment anxiety	0.0378	0.016	0.011	0.073	Significant

Indirect effects were calculated as the product of the unstandardized path coefficient from the independent variable to the mediator and the coefficient from the mediator to the dependent variable. Identified regulation and external regulation served as parallel independent mediators, separately transmitting the statistical associations of the two independent variables with employment anxiety.