In the fast-paced life of current society, time anxiety has gradually evolved into a common psychological phenomenon. Starting from the perspective of "loss and gain" dichotomous path, based on the theory of time perception, career theory and resource preservation theory, the article takes young primary and middle school teachers in Xining City, Qinghai Province as the research object, and constructs a model of the influence mechanism of time anxiety and work input on career growth based on the survey of the current situation of teachers' time anxiety and career growth, and analyzes the influence mechanism of time anxiety and work input on the career growth of young primary and middle school teachers in Xining City. Based on the investigation of the current situation of teachers' time anxiety and professional growth, we introduced work input and school support, constructed a model of time anxiety's influence on professional growth, and analyzed the influence of time anxiety and work input on the professional growth of primary and middle school young teachers in Xining City, as well as the moderating role played by school support in it. The results show that time anxiety has an inverted U-shape effect on the career growth of young teachers in primary and secondary schools in Xining City, work input has a significant positive effect on the career growth of young teachers in primary and secondary schools, and school support negatively moderates the inverted U-shape relationship between time anxiety and career growth.

Yunkai Wang, Quan Zhou, Yaping Liu, Shuang Zhang. An Analysis of the Impact of Time Anxiety on the Professional Growth of Young Teachers in Primary and Secondary Schools in Xining City. Frontiers in Educational Research (2025), Vol. 8, Issue 6: 8-17. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2025.080602.

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