Social chatbots and emotion regulation in daily life: Examining parasocial interaction and resilience among Chinese individuals with self-reported depressive symptoms

“In addition, (d) psychological resilience moderated the association between parasocial interaction and emotion regulation, such that the positive association was stronger at higher levels of resilience. These findings highlight the potential role of social chatbots in everyday emotional support and offer implications for the design of AI-based tools that facilitate emotional disclosure and adaptive self-regulation.”Quoted verbatim from the abstract.