AI-powered solutions: innovating performance dynamics of psychopaths through AI assistants and self-efficacy
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12144-025-07417-7" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12144-025-07417-7</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-025-07417-7" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12144-025-07417-7</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
AI-powered solutions: innovating performance dynamics of psychopaths through AI assistants and self-efficacy
Original language description
Artificial intelligence (AI) is an underexplored area in studying psychopathy traits. This research aims to investigate the role of AI assistants in moderating the link between psychopathy, self-efficacy, and innovative job performance. The study also emphasizes the mediating role of self-efficacy, challenging the typically negative relationship between psychopathy and innovation. We adopted a methodology using multi-wave, multi-level (individual and group), multi-method (survey and experiment), and multi-sourced (self, peer, and manager ratings) data. The findings reveal that AI assistants are crucial in strengthening the relationship between psychopathy and self-efficacy. Specifically, study 1 (survey) data included 506 employees and 80 managers across 29 service-oriented companies in Pakistan. Study 1 supports the hypothesis that psychopathy positively influences innovative job performance through self-efficacy, with AI assistants serving as moderators in this dynamic. In contrast, this effect is diminished in the absence of AI assistants. Additionally, low levels of psychopathy show reduced effects across both AI assistant conditions. Study 2 (experiment, 2 x 3 factorial design) collected data from 72 MBA students, again demonstrating that the presence of AI assistants enhances the positive impact of psychopathy on self-efficacy and subsequent innovative performance outcomes. SPSS and AMOS were used for data analysis, and Smart PLS was used for structural equational modeling. Our results robustly validate the proposed model, emphasizing the constructive influence of psychopathy within organizational contexts.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Current Psychology
ISSN
1046-1310
e-ISSN
1936-4733
Volume of the periodical
44
Issue of the periodical within the volume
9
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
8033-8049
UT code for WoS article
001410551400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85217210866