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Dual pathways of generative AI use: role ambiguity and self-efficacy in employee-AI collaboration
Originally published 2026-08-14 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1793095 ↗
AI / system type
Generative AI use, AI literacy and employee–AI role boundaries
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: Generative AI use, AI literacy and employee–AI role boundaries. The source-specific system and study design determine what can be inferred.
Why this reading matters
The reading brings role ambiguity and self-efficacy in employee–AI collaboration into a concrete discussion of humane work during technological change. It offers employee questionnaire study with structural equation modeling evidence or analysis, not a promise of organizational or family benefit.
Workplace evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
The workplace lens is role ambiguity and self-efficacy in employee–AI collaboration. Source setting or population: 541 employees in Chinese high-technology firms. 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 · Collaboration
Who is responsible for which decisions when a person and AI work together?
This employee questionnaire study with structural equation modeling examines role ambiguity and self-efficacy in employee–AI collaboration. Its TRICK home is Collaboration, an editorial reading path rather than a claim that the paper tests the full framework.
Study context
541 employees in Chinese high-technology firms
Age / stage: Adult workplace context; no child age range inferred
Read with three questions
- Who is responsible for which decisions when a person and AI work together?
- What do this study’s design and population — 541 employees in Chinese high-technology firms — allow you to infer about another workplace?
- When considering role ambiguity and self-efficacy in employee–AI collaboration, which decisions would need employee input before applying this reading to a working family’s circumstances?
Keep the limits in view
Cross-sectional modeled relationships cannot establish the causal effects of AI literacy or of role clarification.
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Qiannan Zhang; Jingyi Zhang; Shan Dong (2026). Dual pathways of generative AI use: role ambiguity and self-efficacy in employee-AI collaboration Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1793095
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