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The suppressing effect of AI dependency in the workplace: Can frequent use of AI enhance practitioners' job self‐efficacy?

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Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming a primary channel through which employees access information and solve problems at work. Drawing on media dependency theory, we theorize that workplace AI use exerts a suppressing effect on practitioners' job self‐efficacy in task‐focused achievement contexts. Specifically, AI use can directly bolster job self‐efficacy by facilitating task accomplishment. At the same time, frequent AI use may foster AI dependency, reducing employees' engagement in compete…

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In a time-lagged field study and a scenario experiment, frequent workplace AI use was directly associated with higher job self-efficacy among practitioners, because it helped them accomplish tasks.

The problem

In the same field study and experiment, AI dependency carried a negative indirect effect on job self-efficacy, weakening employees' mastery-based confidence by reducing their engagement in competence-relevant cognitive work.

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  1. Applied Psychologydoi:10.1111/apps.70121
    Peer-reviewed2026-07-09

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Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-2550, v1: “The suppressing effect of AI dependency in the workplace: Can frequent use of AI enhance practitioners' job self‐efficacy?.” Truvace, 2026-11-12. /record/TRV-2026-2550 (accessed on the day you copy it). sha256 2fa1f13f891f181e…

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