Progetto Mutamenti interazionali e benessere (MiB): Rapporto 2026. Studio longitudinale su studenti e studentesse di scuole secondarie di secondo grado di Roma

Key Findings

• — Sample and method: 2,821 face-to-face CAPI interviews, 99 questions, 25 public secondary schools in Rome, mostly 15-year-olds in their second year, 43.0% female and 56.2% male, interviewed January to April 2026.
• — On AI use (first measured in 2026): 26.9% of the adolescents say they do not use AI; the report gives 38.2% spending up to 30 minutes a day, 15.2% between 30 minutes and one hour, 15.2% one to four hours and 4.6% over four hours (labelled 'iperconnessione da IA').
• — Functional uses among users: 64.5% to clarify doubts about what was studied in class (70.4% of girls, 59.1% of boys), 60.1% to discover things that interest them, 57.6% to have homework done.
• — The report states that dysfunctional AI use, which it describes as including emotional involvement, unconditional trust and dependence, affects 16.2% of AI users (14.4% of girls and 17.5% of boys); 20.1% in professional institutes, 18.8% in technical institutes and 12.2% in licei; 19.3% of students with low family cultural status against 11.4% with high; 20.8% of those with foreign citizenship against 15.7% of Italians.

Methodology Notes

Primary PDF 'Rapporto MIB 2026' (cnr.it, 2.5 MB) read in full text on 2026-11-09; the IRPPS news page matches. Published 2026-11-05 at day precision (the IRPPS release of 2026-11-04 says the data would be presented on 5 November). Cross-sectional second wave of a longitudinal cohort of Roman public-school students (25 schools, mostly 15-year-olds), not a national sample. AI use was first measured in 2026, so no AI trend exists yet. The report does not define the dysfunctional-use items or scale beyond the three named dimensions. The usage-duration shares (38.2%, 15.2%, 15.2%, 4.6%) plus the 26.9% non-users sum to about 100%, so they appear to be shares of all respondents although the text says 'among users'. The report is in Italian; quotations are translated by the curator.

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