Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Natural and Applied Sciences, Notre Dame University-Louaize, Zouk Mosbeh, Lebanon.
Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw. 2013 Mar;16(3):200-4. doi: 10.1089/cyber.2012.0426. Epub 2013 Feb 26.
Concern about Internet addiction, fuelled by the rapid increase in its usage across the globe, has spread to many parts of the world, including the Arab world. Concurrently, there has been a relentless quest for a valid tool for measuring Internet addiction. Thus far, two popular tools have been translated to Arabic: the Compulsive Internet Use Scale and the Internet addiction test (IAT). While the Arabic version of the former was proven valid by one study, the validity of the latter's Arabic version remains in question. Therefore, this study investigated the psychometric properties of the Arabic version of the IAT. An online Arabic version of the IAT was completed by 817 intermediate- and secondary-school students across Lebanon. The results showed that a one-factor model of the IAT has good psychometric properties and fits the data extremely well. This study presents evidence that the Arabic version of the IAT is valid for measuring Internet addiction among adolescents in Lebanon.
对互联网成瘾的担忧,由于其在全球范围内的快速普及而蔓延到世界许多地方,包括阿拉伯世界。同时,人们一直在不懈地寻找一种有效的测量互联网成瘾的工具。到目前为止,已经有两种流行的工具被翻译成阿拉伯语:强迫性网络使用量表和网络成瘾测试(IAT)。虽然前者的阿拉伯语版本已被一项研究证明是有效的,但后者的阿拉伯语版本的有效性仍存在争议。因此,本研究调查了 IAT 的阿拉伯语版本的心理测量特性。黎巴嫩的 817 名中学和中学生在线完成了 IAT 的阿拉伯语版本。结果表明,IAT 的单因素模型具有良好的心理测量特性,并且非常适合数据。本研究表明,IAT 的阿拉伯语版本在衡量黎巴嫩青少年的网络成瘾方面是有效的。