Research Center for Urban Social Psychology, School of Education, Lanzhou City University, Lanzhou 730070, China.
School of Psychology, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Jun 23;18(13):6744. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18136744.
The QQ social media platform is very popular among Chinese adolescents. As with other social media platforms (e.g., Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc.), there have been increasing reports that the use of QQ can be potentially problematic to a minority of users. However, unlike these other social media platforms, there is currently no scale to assess the risk of problematic QQ use. The present study developed the Problematic QQ Use Scale (PQQUS) among Chinese adolescents based on six core criteria of behavioral addiction (salience, tolerance, mood modification, loss of control, withdrawal, and conflict) that have been used in the development of other social media addiction scales. The scale was administered to a sample of 1008 Chinese school children to assess its psychometric properties, utilizing both classical test theory and item response theory. The analysis demonstrated that the PQQUS had good item discrimination indices relating to both CTT and IRT. The CFA results and Loevinger's -coefficient suggested the PQQUS had a unidimensional factor structure. The PQQUS had good internal reliability, good composite reliability, and good concurrent validity (based on correlations with measures of anxiety, depression, self-esteem, and life satisfaction). The invariance testing between boys and girls suggested this scale is a valid assessment tool for both groups. Overall, the PQQUS is a psychometrically robust tool for assessing problematic QQ use and will have a key role in further research on problematic QQ use among Chinese adolescents.
QQ 社交媒体平台在中国青少年中非常流行。与其他社交媒体平台（如 Facebook、Instagram、YouTube 等）一样，越来越多的报告表明，QQ 的使用对少数用户可能存在潜在问题。然而，与其他这些社交媒体平台不同，目前没有评估 QQ 使用问题风险的规模。本研究基于行为成瘾的六个核心标准（突显、耐受性、情绪调节、失控、戒断和冲突），在中国青少年中开发了 QQ 使用问题量表（PQQUS），这些标准已用于开发其他社交媒体成瘾量表。该量表在 1008 名中国在校儿童中进行了评估，以利用经典测试理论和项目反应理论来评估其心理测量学特性。分析表明，PQQUS 具有良好的项目区分指数，与 CTT 和 IRT 相关。验证性因素分析结果和 Loevinger's -系数表明 PQQUS 具有单维结构。PQQUS 具有良好的内部信度、良好的综合信度和良好的同时效度（基于与焦虑、抑郁、自尊和生活满意度测量的相关性）。男女之间的不变性测试表明，该量表是两组人群的有效评估工具。总体而言，PQQUS 是评估 QQ 使用问题的一种心理测量学上可靠的工具，将在进一步研究中国青少年 QQ 使用问题方面发挥关键作用。
