AI anxiety is negatively associated with emotion regulation among university students¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i1 AI anxiety correlates negatively with emotion regulation (r = −0.172). → Zhang Y 2026 q2 i? AI anxiety remains negatively associated with emotion regulation after controlling for daily AI use duration (B = −0.172). → Zhang Y 2026 (2)

Evidence¶

Zhang Y 2026¶

Zhang Y, Shi Y and Lu J (2026). The relationship between AI anxiety and academic motivation among university students: the mediating role of emotion regulation and the moderating role of gender. Front. Psychol. 17:1918525. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1918525

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Bivariate Pearson correlation analysis in the same cross-sectional survey (Table 1). AI anxiety was negatively correlated with emotion regulation (r = −0.172, p < 0.001) among the 1,484 participants.

"AI anxiety was negatively correlated with both emotion regulation (r = −0.172, p < 0.001) and academic motivation (r = −0.175, p < 0.001), whereas emotion regulation was positively correlated with academic motivation (r = 0.457, p < 0.001)."

Zhang Y 2026 (2)¶

Zhang Y, Shi Y and Lu J (2026). The relationship between AI anxiety and academic motivation among university students: the mediating role of emotion regulation and the moderating role of gender. Front. Psychol. 17:1918525. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1918525

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Regression path from PROCESS Model 4 (Table 2) in the survey of 1,484 students. After controlling for daily AI use duration, AI anxiety was negatively associated with emotion regulation (B = −0.172, p < 0.001). No standardized effect size is printed for this path.

"As shown in Table 2, after controlling for daily AI use duration, AI anxiety was negatively associated with emotion regulation [B = −0.172, SE = 0.026, 95% CI (−0.222, −0.122), p < 0.001]."

Discussion¶

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