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This study mapped how two forms of AI dependence relate to problematic social media use, anxiety, and attentional control.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Materials and Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Cross\u2010sectional online survey of 342 Brazilian dental students and professionals. Latent factor scores from confirmatory factor analysis were combined with observed variables in a hybrid network. Network structure, centrality, and stability were estimated with regularised Gaussian graphical modelling and bootstrapping.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Functional Dependence (FD) and Existential Dependence (ED) were positively associated with each other (partial\n                      <jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u20090.447). FD was negatively and ED positively associated with anxiety (\n                      <jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u2009\u22120.146 and 0.264); both were positively associated with problematic social media use, ED more strongly (\n                      <jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u20090.237 vs. 0.168). Attentional focusing was negatively associated with anxiety and problematic social media use, but not with either form of AI dependence. Centrality estimates were not stable (CS\u2010coefficient\u2009=\u20090.05, below the recommended 0.25) and are not used to rank nodes.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Instrumental and emotional reliance on AI did not behave as one construct. Only ED was positively associated with anxiety.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Dental education programmes introducing AI should address not only technical competence but also the emotional and epistemic relationship students develop with these tools. 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