Self-Concept Clarity and AI Anxiety in Graduate Students: Mediating Roles of Intentional Self-Regulation and Perceived Stress and Moderating Role of Intolerance of Uncertainty.

Behav Sci (Basel) · 2026 · PMC12937827 · PMID 41749980

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marginal significancep = 0.076so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

After applying HC3 standard errors, the significance of three key interaction terms was attenuated from p < 0.05 to marginal significance ( p = 0.076–0.091), while the significance of the other main effects remained unchanged.

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marginally significantno p-value reported

This indicates that while intolerance of uncertainty demonstrated marginally significant interaction effects on the three direct paths, it did not translate into statistically significant alterations in the overall indirect effects of the mediation pathways.

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