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The Impact of Academic Pressure on College Students’ Use of AI: The Moderating Effect of Mindfulness

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Zhijie Du1, *
1University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
*Corresponding author. Email: 1031331962du@gmail.com
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Zhijie Du
Available Online 15 May 2026.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-577-5_50How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Academic pressure; Artificial intelligence use; Mindfulness; Conservation of Resources theory; college students; Technology use
Abstract

This study investigates the relationships between academic pressure and different types of artificial intelligence (AI) use among college students, as well as the moderating role of mindfulness. Drawing on previous research, AI uses are classified into four dimensions—instrumental use, social use, entertainment use, and escape use. A two-wave longitudinal survey was conducted among Chinese college students, with academic pressure and mindfulness measured at Time 1 and different types of AI use measured at Time 2. Results indicated that academic pressure was negatively associated with social and instrumental AI use but did not show statistically significant associations with entertainment and escape AI use. Moreover, Mindfulness moderated the relationships between academic pressure and both entertainment and instrumental use, while no moderating effects were found for social or escape use. The discussion focuses on the implications of these findings for understanding how academic pressure and mindfulness shape different patterns of AI use among college students.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2026 5th International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts (SSHA 2026)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
15 May 2026
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978-2-38476-577-5
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-577-5_50How to use a DOI?
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© 2026 The Author(s)
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Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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