Harnessing Self-Control and AI: Understanding ChatGPT's Impact on Academic Wellbeing.

ABSTRACT: The rapid integration of generative AI, particularly ChatGPT, into academic settings has prompted urgent questions regarding its impact on students' psychological and academic outcomes. Although generative AI holds considerable potential to transform educational practices, its effects on individual traits such as self-control and academic wellbeing remain insufficiently explored. This study addresses this gap through a sequential two-phase design. In the first phase, the ChatGPT Usage Scale was adapted and validated for a Turkish university student population (N = 413). Using confirmatory factor analysis and item response theory, the scale was confirmed as a psychometrically valid and reliable one-factor instrument. In the second phase, a separate sample (N = 449) was used to

SUBMITTER: Besalti M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12466394 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature