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Drawing on survey data from 517 Chinese university students, we conducted observed-variable path analysis and bootstrap mediation analysis. The revised model allowed residual correlations among organism-level states measured in the same survey session and showed good fit (chi-square\u2009=\u20093.56, df\u2009=\u20092, CFI\u2009=\u2009.999, TLI\u2009=\u2009.987, RMSEA\u2009=\u2009.039, SRMR\u2009=\u2009.008). Perceived GenAI interaction features were positively associated with beneficial offloading, dependent offloading, agency\/autonomy, and self-efficacy. Beneficial offloading, agency\/autonomy, and self-efficacy were positively associated with both co-creation and future task confidence, whereas dependent offloading was not significantly associated with either outcome after the other organism variables were considered. 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