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AI usage enhances employee creativity through increased work engagement, and this positive effect is amplified by higher levels of technology acceptance. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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This study examines how AI usage influences employee creativity, mediated by work engagement and moderated by technology acceptance.

June 1, 2026Frontiers in PsychologyOpen Access

AI usage and employee creativity: the mediating role of work engagement and the moderating role of technology acceptance

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This study examines how AI usage influences employee creativity, mediated by work engagement and moderated by technology acceptance.
Targeted Chinese SMEs with a sample size of 316
Conducted empirical analyses using SPSS and Amos
Developed a research model based on conservation of resources and social exchange theories.
AI usage positively influences employee creativity through increased work engagement.
Higher technology acceptance amplifies the positive effects of AI on work engagement and creativity.

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Randomized trial investigates AI's impact on employee creativity in SMEs, suggesting technology acceptance enhances engagement and creativity.

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Cai et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1d208702fbce9130636f53 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1807038

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Randomized trial investigates AI's impact on employee creativity in SMEs, suggesting technology acceptance enhances engagement and creativity.

AI usage and employee creativity: the mediating role of work engagement and the moderating role of technology acceptance

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AI usage and employee creativity: the mediating role of work engagement and the moderating role of technology acceptance

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