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Diyi Yang

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Living with AI Companions: Sustained AI Companionship Predicts Lower Well-Being Through Lower Human Interaction

AI chatbots are increasingly used for companionship, emotional support, and personal self-disclosure; however, how social engagement with these systems unfolds over time and shapes users'well-being remains unclear. To address this, we conducted a two-wave longitudinal study of CharacterAI users, surveying 1,182 partici...

Yu-Tong Zhang, Dora Zhao, Yi-Xin Wang et al. · 1 citation
Review Aug 2026

Interaction with AI companions and psychological well-being.

The results suggest that the association between AI companionship and well-being is not uniform and depends on users' offline social environments and how chatbots are used.

Yutong Zhang, Dora Zhao, Jeffrey T. Hancock et al. · 3 citations

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