The Moderating Effect of Resilience on the Relationship Between Parental Authority and Academic Performance in AI-Supported Learning Environments
摘要
The purpose of this study was to test whether student resilience moderates the relationship between perceived parental authority (authoritative, authoritarian, permissive) and academic performance in pervasive, AI-supported secondary-school learning environments, and whether human–AI interaction behaviours (shared metacognition, cognitive offloading) mediate these effects. The design of this study was a cross-sectional survey of 447 Grade 10–12 students (Guangdong, March 2025) in schools using an always-available, classroom AI tutor. Parenting styles (PAQ), resilience (school resilience scale), and AI-use constructs were measured; academic performance was self-reported (0–100) with robustness checks using quartile rank. We estimated ordinary least square (OLS) models with resilience interactions, a structural equation model (SEM) for mediation via shared metacognition and cognitive offloading, school-clustered SEs, and extensive sensitivity analyses. Authoritative parenting predicted higher grades (≈ + 2.1 points, p < 0.01); authoritarian predicted lower (≈ − 1.5, p < 0.05); permissive was null. Resilience strengthened the authoritative effect and buffered the authoritarian penalty (interaction terms ≈ + 1.0, p < 0.05). Resilience increased AI interaction behaviours, which in turn improved achievement; the indirect effect ≈ was 0.87 (~ 33% of the total), indicating partial mediation. Effects were larger for girls and lower-income students. This study positions human–AI learning analytics including selective offloading and socially shared metacognition as pervasive computing signals that link family context to educational outcomes. It quantifies resilience as a moderator within an always-available AI tutoring ecosystem and offers design/governance implications for equitable AI deployment in schools.