An Empirical Research on the Relationship between Loneliness and GAI Usage Habits of College Students

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10.2991/978-2-38476-475-4_53How to use a DOI?

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Loneliness; GAI; College Students; UCLA Loneliness Scale

Abstract

With the widespread application of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) among college students, the relationships between loneliness and GAI usage habits of college students have attracted attention. However, there is currently a lack of in-depth empirical research on the relationship between college students’ loneliness and the use of GAI. How to promote college students’ mental health with the help of GAI has become an urgent problem to be solved. This research provides a scientific basis for optimizing GAI application and conducting mental health intervention. This research randomly selected 1,314 college students for a questionnaire survey to obtain their GAI usage habits and used the third edition of the UCLA Loneliness Scale to measure the level of loneliness. The research comprehensively used a variety of statistical analysis methods to deeply explore the association and mechanism of action between college students’ loneliness and GAI usage habits, and at the same time examined the moderating effects of variables such as grade and gender. The research found that there is a nonlinear relationship between GAI usage and loneliness, that is, short-term high-frequency interaction alleviates loneliness, but long-term dependence or insufficient emotional response will aggravate loneliness; the stronger the perception of GAI emotional support, the lower the loneliness; grade and gender differences have a moderating effect.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wenjia Liu
AU  - Yichuang Ke
AU  - Sizhe Li
AU  - Ningtao Sun
AU  - Adriano Tavares
AU  - Tianyuan Zhu
AU  - Yanchun Liang
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/11/11
TI  - An Empirical Research on the Relationship between Loneliness and GAI Usage Habits of College Students
BT  - Proceedings of the 2025 10th International Conference on Modern Management, Education and Social Sciences (MMET 2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 455
EP  - 461
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-475-4_53
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-475-4_53
ID  - Liu2025
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