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This study developed and validated the Multidimensional Aspects of AI Literacy Scale for Pre-Service Teachers (MAILS-PT), which assesses Ethical Use, Metacognitive Monitoring (Monitor), Motivational Regulation (Motivate), Behavioral Regulation (Regulate), and Critical Evaluation (Evaluate).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Method<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>An initial 60-item pool was reduced to 40 items through expert content review. The scale was administered to 420 pre-service teachers recruited in Spring 2025 for exploratory factor analysis and to a separately recruited sample of 684 in Fall 2025 for confirmatory and validation analyses. Ordinal-data methods, reliability analysis, assessment of convergent and discriminant validity, and gender measurement-invariance testing were conducted. A 15-item AI-Assisted Learning Judgment Quiz was used to examine preliminary concurrent associations with a framework-aligned judgment measure.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Exploratory factor analysis retained 30 items, six per dimension; the five-factor solution explained 58.3% of the variance, with primary loadings ranging from 0.639\u20130.829. Confirmatory factor analysis supported the structure,\n                      <jats:italic>\u03c7<\/jats:italic>\n                      <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                      (395)\u202f=\u202f522.90,\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f&amp;lt;\u202f0.001, CFI\u202f=\u202f0.988, TLI\u202f=\u202f0.986, RMSEA\u202f=\u202f0.022, 90% CI [0.016, 0.027], SRMR\u202f=\u202f0.037. Subscale omega values ranged from 0.851\u20130.889 in the exploratory sample and 0.848\u20130.874 in the confirmatory sample. AVE values ranged from 0.522\u20130.583 and HTMT values from 0.029\u20130.272. Configural, loading, and threshold invariance across gender were supported under the specific ordered-categorical JASP\/lavaan parameterization. Ethical Use showed near-zero relationships with the other dimensions. The five subscales jointly explained 41.3% of judgment-quiz variance,\n                      <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f=\u202f0.643,\n                      <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic>\n                      <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                      \u202f=\u202f0.413, adjusted\n                      <jats:italic>R<\/jats:italic>\n                      <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                      \u202f=\u202f0.409,\n                      <jats:italic>F<\/jats:italic>\n                      (5, 678)\u202f=\u202f95.48,\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f&amp;lt;\u202f0.001.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>MAILS-PT provides preliminary psychometric support for five distinguishable aspects of learning-related AI literacy among pre-service teachers. Subscales should be interpreted separately, with Ethical Use treated as a distinct yet related domain of responsible academic AI use. Quiz associations provide preliminary framework-aligned concurrent evidence, not independent criterion or predictive validity. 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