From AI coaching to athletic engagement: the mediating roles of cognitive adaptability and growth mindset in sports students
Dongmin Zhao, Khalid Abdullah Alotaibi, Shazia Rehman, Xin Li · 2026
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Dongmin Zhao and co-authors ask how coaching by smart software shapes sports students in a 2026 study. Such tools now sit in much sport teaching, yet how students feel about them, and how those feelings link to drive, is little known.
The team surveyed near eighteen hundred sports majors at schools in one Chinese city in March 2025. Students who rated the coaching well also bent more deftly to new tasks, and that bend linked to both a growth outlook and deeper drive to learn. A path that ran through the growth outlook alone did not hold. Fresh checks with new model shapes kept the same pattern. The authors read quick, supple thought as the bridge between the tools and student drive.
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| CREATOR | Dongmin Zhao, Khalid Abdullah Alotaibi, Shazia Rehman, Xin Li |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 59 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |