The indirect effect of AI literacy on engagement via psychological capital strengthens as professional commitment rises (moderated mediation)¶

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q2 i? Conditional indirect effects increase monotonically with professional commitment: 0.204 (low), 0.289 (mean), 0.374 (high), all significant; the index of moderated mediation was significant (β = 0.307). → Wang 2026

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Wang 2026¶

Wang, N. (2026). The impact of artificial intelligence literacy on learning engagement among university students: the mediating role of psychological capital and the moderating role of professional identity. Frontiers in Psychology, 17:1892204. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1892204

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Bootstrap conditional indirect effect analysis (5,000 resamples) on the 1,198-student survey, reported in Table 3. The article describes this monotonic increasing pattern as professional commitment playing a quantifiable "context-amplifier" role.

"the indirect effect was 0.204 (SE = 0.023, 95% CI [0.160, 0.249], p < 0.001) for low professional commitment (one standard deviation below the mean), 0.289 (SE = 0.019, 95% CI [0.253, 0.326], p < 0.001) for the mean level of professional commitment, and 0.374 (SE = 0.022, 95% CI [0.332, 0.418], p < 0.001) for high professional commitment"

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