Institut Universitaire en Santé Mentale de Québec, Quebec City, QC, Canada.
Addiction. 2013 Jul;108(7):1207-16. doi: 10.1111/add.12202. Epub 2013 May 7.
Excessive internet use is becoming a concern, and some have proposed that it may involve addiction. We evaluated the dimensions assessed by, and psychometric properties of, a range of questionnaires purporting to assess internet addiction.
Fourteen questionnaires were identified purporting to assess internet addiction among adolescents and adults published between January 1993 and October 2011. Their reported dimensional structure, construct, discriminant and convergent validity and reliability were assessed, as well as the methods used to derive these.
Methods used to evaluate internet addiction questionnaires varied considerably. Three dimensions of addiction predominated: compulsive use (79%), negative outcomes (86%) and salience (71%). Less common were escapism (21%), withdrawal symptoms (36%) and other dimensions. Measures of validity and reliability were found to be within normally acceptable limits.
There is a broad convergence of questionnaires purporting to assess internet addiction suggesting that compulsive use, negative outcome and salience should be covered and the questionnaires show adequate psychometric properties. However, the methods used to evaluate the questionnaires vary widely and possible factors contributing to excessive use such as social motivation do not appear to be covered.
过度使用互联网正引起人们的关注，有人提出这可能涉及成瘾。我们评估了一系列旨在评估网络成瘾的问卷所评估的维度和心理测量特性。
确定了 14 份旨在评估青少年和成年人网络成瘾的问卷，这些问卷发表于 1993 年 1 月至 2011 年 10 月之间。评估了它们报告的维度结构、建构、判别和收敛有效性和可靠性，以及得出这些结论所使用的方法。
评估网络成瘾问卷的方法差异很大。成瘾的三个主要维度为：强迫使用（79%）、负面结果（86%）和突显度（71%）。不太常见的维度是逃避现实（21%）、戒断症状（36%）和其他维度。有效性和可靠性的衡量标准在通常可接受的范围内。
有许多旨在评估网络成瘾的问卷具有广泛的一致性，这表明应涵盖强迫使用、负面结果和突显度，并且问卷具有足够的心理测量特性。然而，评估问卷所使用的方法差异很大，并且似乎没有涵盖可能导致过度使用的因素，例如社会动机。
