Artificial intelligence uses and loneliness: Examining the relationship between artificial intelligence usage patterns, need to belong and loneliness

Abstract

Investigating the relationships between motivations for using AI tools and socialization dynamics is gaining increasing importance in AI-human interaction research. The potential opportunities and benefits that artificial intelligence tools can provide in relation to social needs and socialization dynamics attract the attention of researchers and practitioners in various behavioral fields. This study aimed to examine the relationship between motivations for using artificial intelligence tools and social characteristics. For this purpose, motivations for using AI tools, general attitudes towards AI, need for belonging, and loneliness levels were measured in a questionnaire form including 249 participants. The relationships between social interaction, identity, conformity, productivity and information motivations for using AI tools and the need to belong, loneliness and attitudes towards artificial intelligence were examined and the results showed that these motivations are positively predicted by positive attitudes towards artificial intelligence and the need to belong. The findings are discussed within the framework of the relevant literature.

Keywords: AI Using Motivations, Attitudes Toward AI, Need To Belong, Loneliness

DOI: 10.54941/ahfe1007453