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ArticleBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Contextualizing AI-Supported Emotion Regulation Through Sport and Exercise in Higher Education: A Conceptual Reframing.

Yuze Zhang, Syed Ghufran Hadier, Yinghai Liu, Yanlan Guo

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Yuze ZhangCollege of Physical Education, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China.ORCID 0009-0003-6995-9236
Syed Ghufran HadierCollege of Physical Education, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China.ORCID 0000-0001-5164-5886
Yinghai LiuCollege of Physical Education, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China.
Yanlan GuoCollege of Physical Education, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China.

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National Institute of Education Sciences BLA240183
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Abstract

backgroundArtificial intelligence (AI) is being increasingly used in educational and mental health contexts, yet many emotion-related applications still prioritize detection, classification, and automated feedback over contextual understanding. This study uses the Stanford AI Index Reports (2021-2025) as an exploratory discourse corpus to examine how prominent AI reports frame technology, application domains, and governance, and to consider what this framing implies for emotion regulation through sport and exercise in higher education.

methodsAcross 1813 report pages, we applied BERTopic with multilingual sentence embeddings (paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2), UMAP dimensionality reduction, HDBSCAN clustering, and class-based TF-IDF, followed by dynamic and hierarchical topic analysis and theory-informed synthesis. Of 22 topics generated, 13 relevant to the study focus were retained and validated through keyword inspection, representative-text review, and independent expert agreement.

resultsThe analysis indicated a three-layer structure: a technology core, an application-expansion layer, and an ethics-and-governance layer. Health and education themes grew most across reports, with medicine/health rising from 14 to 105 and school pathways from 3 to 105 segment occurrences between 2021 and 2025, whereas sport, exercise, embodied activity, and campus support appeared only indirectly. As prominence reflects raw frequency across five reports, trends are read descriptively.

conclusionsWe propose a human-technology-environment framework comprising multimodal contextual profiling, autonomy-supportive task adaptation, feedback-reflection-practice loops, peer and campus support integration, and human-in-the-loop governance. The study does not test intervention effects; its contribution is conceptual and agenda-setting, clarifying a gap between mainstream AI discourse and the embodied, relational, and ecological conditions through which sport and exercise may support students' emotion regulation.

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artificial intelligenceBERTopiccontextual intervention designemotion regulationexercise psychologyhigher educationsport interventionuniversity students

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