Perceived fairness partially mediates the effect of decision-making agent on decision acceptance, accounting for 67.52% of the total effect¶

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Subclaims¶

q3 i? Perceived fairness significantly partially mediates the link between the decision-making agent and decision acceptance. → Zhang Zhen; Fan Siyu; Qi Chunhui 2026

Evidence¶

Zhang Zhen; Fan Siyu; Qi Chunhui 2026¶

Zhang Zhen; Fan Siyu; Qi Chunhui. (2026). Teacher or Artificial Intelligence? The Effect of Decision-Making Agent on Junior High School Students’ Decision Acceptance: A Moderated Mediation Model. Behavioral Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs16071227

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PROCESS Model 8 moderated mediation analysis with 5000 bootstrap resamples (N = 250) found a "significant partial mediating effect of perceived fairness"; the indirect effect ab = 0.79 and direct effect c′ = 0.38 both had bootstrap confidence intervals excluding zero.

"The indirect effect (ab = 0.79), direct effect (c′ = 0.38), and total effect (ab + c′ = 1.17) indicated the mediating pathway of perceived fairness explained 67.52% of the overall relationship between the decision-making agent and decision acceptance."

Discussion¶

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