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Emotional Responses to AI Use: Development of the SAGAT Scale for Shame and Guilt

2025-08-31

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<p>The rise of generative AI tools has introduced new ethical dilemmas and emotional responses, yet little research has examined users’ social emotions such as shame, guilt, and impostor syndrome. This paper presents the SAGAT (Shame and Guilt towards AI Tools) scale, a 9-item psychometric instrument developed to measure these emotions in AI tool usage. Two cross-sectional studies confirmed a three-factor structur...

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Literature Corpus work: 83776f31-74e3-5b3c-ad6c-6aefb652bb0d
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/3w4cy_v1

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