Negative emotional associations of AI-adaptive environments are pronounced among students with low AI literacy but substantially attenuated among those with high AI literacy¶
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q3 i? Simple slope analyses showed negative emotional associations pronounced at low AI literacy (−1 SD) and substantially attenuated at high AI literacy (+1 SD). → Li J 2026
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Li J 2026¶
Li J, Lin Z and Qiu C (2026) The personalization paradox: how AI-driven adaptive learning environments are associated with college students' academic emotions and self-regulation learning—a moderated mediation model. Front. Psychol. 17:1915839. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1915839
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Simple slopes analysis (Table 3) of the AI environment → emotion paths by AI literacy level in the 486-student sample. At low literacy, enjoyment β = −0.38, anxiety β = 0.39, boredom β = 0.41 (all p < 0.001); at high literacy, βs were −0.11, 0.15, and 0.16 respectively.
"Simple slope analyses (Table 3) showed that the negative emotional associations were pronounced among students with low AI literacy (−1 SD) but were substantially attenuated for those with high AI literacy (+1 SD)."
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Related Claims¶
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- Academic emotions—enjoyment, anxiety, and boredom—mediate the association between perceived AI-adaptive environments and SRL, accounting for 54.8% of the total effect — related
- Perceived AI-adaptive learning environments are negatively associated with college students' self-regulated learning in a three-wave longitudinal survey — related
- AI literacy moderates the pathways from perceived AI-adaptive environments to academic emotions, attenuating negative emotional effects among students with higher AI literacy — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
- Perceived AI literacy moderates the direct path: the negative GenAI use–trust association is significant at low literacy and non-significant at high literacy — related
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Negative emotional associations of AI-adaptive environments are pronounced among students with low AI literacy but substantially attenuated among those with high AI literacy |
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Negative emotional associations of AI-adaptive environments are pronounced among students with low AI literacy but substantially attenuated among those with high AI literacy |
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