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The Impact of AI Use on College Students' Academic Self-efficacy: Exploring the Mediating Role of Anxiety
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Abstract
With the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education, the impact of AI-assisted learning on college students’ psychological factors has attracted attention, particularly in terms of anxiety and academic self-efficacy. Based on the Academic Self-Efficacy Scale and the AI Anxiety Scale (AIAS), the study used a questionnaire to collect valid data from 368 college students, and tested the mediating effect of AI anxiety on the relationship between AI use and academic self-efficacy. The study found that both AI use and AI anxiety positively affected academic self-efficacy, but AI anxiety did not play a mediating role between AI use and academic self-efficacy. Existing research and analysis suggest that the biased perception of AI among college students may confound study outcomes;and the integration of AI in education appears to trigger anxiety, consequently increasing students' focus on their studies.Future research can incorporate further additional variables to comprehensively explore the psychological mechanisms of the impact of AI use on college students.
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Artificial Intelligence, academic self-efficacy, higher education, anxiety, student psychology.
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Zhou,J. (2024). The Impact of AI Use on College Students' Academic Self-efficacy: Exploring the Mediating Role of Anxiety. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,75,139-146.
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