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Effects of Employee–Artificial Intelligence (AI) Collaboration on Counterproductive Work Behaviors (CWBs): Leader Emotional Support as a Moderator
Originally published 2025-05-17 · Behavioral Sciences
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · DOI 10.3390/bs15050696 ↗
AI / system type
Employee–AI collaboration scenarios and leader emotional support
Workplace evidenceExamines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
The AI connection
System or context examined: Employee–AI collaboration scenarios and leader emotional support. The source-specific system and study design determine what can be inferred.
Why this reading matters
The reading brings loneliness, emotional fatigue and leaders’ emotional support into a concrete discussion of humane work during technological change. It offers factorial vignette experiment evidence or analysis, not a promise of organizational or family benefit.
Workplace evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
The workplace lens is loneliness, emotional fatigue and leaders’ emotional support. Source setting or population: 167 participants in a 2-by-2 employee–AI collaboration vignette experiment. Parenting and child-development outcomes are not inferred from the workplace evidence.
Examines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
Editorial reading guide · Kindness
How can leaders keep human connection alive when AI becomes a daily colleague?
This factorial vignette experiment examines loneliness, emotional fatigue and leaders’ emotional support. Its TRICK home is Kindness, an editorial reading path rather than a claim that the paper tests the full framework.
Study context
167 participants in a 2-by-2 employee–AI collaboration vignette experiment
Age / stage: Adult workplace context; no child age range inferred
Read with three questions
- How can leaders keep human connection alive when AI becomes a daily colleague?
- What do this study’s design and population — 167 participants in a 2-by-2 employee–AI collaboration vignette experiment — allow you to infer about another workplace?
- When considering loneliness, emotional fatigue and leaders’ emotional support, which decisions would need employee input before applying this reading to a working family’s circumstances?
Keep the limits in view
Vignettes do not reproduce ongoing work relationships; inferred behavioral responses are not long-term measured workplace harm.
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Qingqi Meng; Tung-Ju Wu; Wenyan Duan; Shijia Li (2025). Effects of Employee–Artificial Intelligence (AI) Collaboration on Counterproductive Work Behaviors (CWBs): Leader Emotional Support as a Moderator Behavioral Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15050696
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