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September 8, 2026Journal of IntelligenceOpen Access

AI Learning Self-Efficacy and Self-Perceived Digital Creative Functioning: A Conditional Indirect-Association Model

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YLYihui LIUJSJinming SunWZWeida Zhang

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Cross-sectional study demonstrates positive links between AI learning efficacy and digital creative functioning in college students, suggesting creative confidence mediates this relationship.

Key Points

  • To evaluate the relationship between students' efficacy beliefs regarding AI-supported learning and their self-perceived digital creative functioning, assessing digital creative self-efficacy as a mediator and AI risk awareness as a moderator.
  • Surveyed N=920 higher education students in China using a cross-sectional design.
  • Analyzed self-report measures using confirmatory factor analysis and regression-based conditional process analysis with 5,000 bootstrap resamples.
  • AI learning self-efficacy demonstrated a positive direct association with self-perceived digital creative functioning (point estimate = 0.612) alongside a smaller statistical indirect association via digital creative self-efficacy (point estimate = 0.177 at mean risk awareness).
  • Conditional indirect point estimates decreased modestly from 0.196 to 0.157 as AI learning risk awareness increased, showing a small negative index of moderated mediation.

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LIU et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aa0091858e84d0ff5b47c02https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence14090213
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