Department of Methodology of Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw. 2013 Feb;16(2):108-18. doi: 10.1089/cyber.2012.0250. Epub 2012 Dec 19.
Many researchers and professionals have reported nonsubstance addiction to online entertainments in adolescents. However, very few scales have been designed to assess problem Internet use in this population, in spite of their high exposure and obvious vulnerability. The aim of this study was to review the currently available scales for assessing problematic Internet use and to validate a new scale of this kind for use, specifically in this age group, the Problematic Internet Entertainment Use Scale for Adolescents. The research was carried out in Spain in a gender-balanced sample of 1131 high school students aged between 12 and 18 years. Psychometric analyses showed the scale to be unidimensional, with excellent internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha of 0.92), good construct validity, and positive associations with alternative measures of maladaptive Internet use. This self-administered scale can rapidly measure the presence of symptoms of behavioral addiction to online videogames and social networking sites, as well as their degree of severity. The results estimate the prevalence of this problematic behavior in Spanish adolescents to be around 5 percent.
许多研究人员和专业人士报告称,青少年对在线娱乐存在非物质成瘾。然而,尽管青少年接触网络较多且容易受到影响,但很少有专门针对这一人群的评估工具来衡量其网络使用问题。本研究旨在回顾目前用于评估网络使用问题的量表,并验证一种专门针对该人群的新量表,即青少年网络娱乐问题量表。该研究在西班牙进行,参与者为 1131 名年龄在 12 至 18 岁之间的高中生,其中男女各占一半。心理测量学分析表明,该量表具有单维性,内部一致性极好(Cronbach's alpha 为 0.92),具有良好的结构效度,与其他衡量不良网络使用的替代指标呈正相关。这种自评量表可以快速衡量青少年在线玩游戏和使用社交网站等行为成瘾的症状及其严重程度。研究结果估计西班牙青少年中存在这种问题行为的比例约为 5%。