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Generative AI is becoming an important intelligent tool for collaborative learning interactions and promoting collective cognition. However, the pathways and effects of promoting group awareness in collaboration remain unclear. To reveal how generative AI influences interactive behavior in collaborative learning, this study, grounded in the situated expectancy-value theory framework, examines the critical role of environmental support and expectancy-value beliefs (self-efficacy and perceived usefulness) in enhancing group awareness within generative AI-assisted collaborative learning. Specifically, group awarenessis conceptualized in three subdimensions: cognitive awareness, behavioral awareness, and social awareness.A systematic sampling method was employed to survey 334 students from five universities across different regions of China. Structural equation modeling showed that Environmental support significantly contributes to group awareness effects in collaboration. Self-efficacy mediates cognitive awareness and behavioral awareness in environmental support for generative AI facilitated collaboration. Perceived usefulness mediates the effect of environmental support on cognitive awareness, behavioral awareness, and social awareness. In addition, subjects in the high environmental support and high expectancy-value belief groups showed better group awareness. This study demonstrates the pathways and factors influencing the role of group awareness in the process of generative AI, facilitating collaboration from the perspective of situated expectancy-value.
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