Trust in Generative AI and Critical Thinking Among College Students: A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis Based on Perceived Usefulness, Cognitive Offloading, and AI Self-Efficacy
This study examines how college students’ trust in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is associated with critical thinking engagement in GenAI-supported learning through multiple psychological mechanisms. Drawing on Distributed Cognition Theory (DCT), we propose and test a structural model including five constr...