TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychometric properties of three measures of “Facebook engagement and/or addiction” among a sample of English-speaking Pakistani university students
AU - Turley, Joanne
AU - Lewis, Christopher Alan
AU - Musharraf, Sadia
AU - Malik, Jamil A.
AU - Breslin, Michael J.
PY - 2019/8/15
Y1 - 2019/8/15
N2 - For researchers interested in measuring the construct of “Facebook engagement and/or addiction,” there are a number of existing measures including the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale, the Facebook Intensity Scale, and the Addictive Tendencies Scale. Currently, there is limited data on the psychometric properties of these three scales, especially among South Asian samples. The present aim was to address this shortfall. A sample of 308 English-speaking Pakistani university students completed the scales, in their original English versions, on two occasions separated by four weeks. Results demonstrated that for each of the scales, across both administrations, satisfactory psychometric properties were found, including internal reliability, temporal stability, and construct validity. Moreover, for these three scales, using confirmatory factor analysis, a one-factor structure was generally found to be a good description of the data for both male and female samples. These data provide further evidence for the reliability and validity of three scales concerned with “Facebook engagement and/or addiction.”
AB - For researchers interested in measuring the construct of “Facebook engagement and/or addiction,” there are a number of existing measures including the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale, the Facebook Intensity Scale, and the Addictive Tendencies Scale. Currently, there is limited data on the psychometric properties of these three scales, especially among South Asian samples. The present aim was to address this shortfall. A sample of 308 English-speaking Pakistani university students completed the scales, in their original English versions, on two occasions separated by four weeks. Results demonstrated that for each of the scales, across both administrations, satisfactory psychometric properties were found, including internal reliability, temporal stability, and construct validity. Moreover, for these three scales, using confirmatory factor analysis, a one-factor structure was generally found to be a good description of the data for both male and female samples. These data provide further evidence for the reliability and validity of three scales concerned with “Facebook engagement and/or addiction.”
KW - Addiction
KW - Facebook
KW - Pakistan
KW - Reliability
KW - Validity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85049981049&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11469-018-9963-z
DO - 10.1007/s11469-018-9963-z
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85049981049
SN - 1557-1874
VL - 17
SP - 995
EP - 1007
JO - International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
JF - International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
IS - 4
ER -