Key Laboratory of Intelligent Education Technology and Application of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang, China; School of Psychology, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang, China.
Division of Psychology, School of Applied Sciences, London South Bank University, London, UK; Sigmund Freud University, Milan, Italy.
Addict Behav. 2023 Jul;142:107651. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2023.107651. Epub 2023 Feb 9.
Desire thinking is a conscious and voluntary cognitive process that is closely linked to levels of craving and addictive behaviors. The Desire Thinking Questionnaire (DTQ) can be used to measure desire thinking in all age groups as well as in addicts. This measurement has also been translated into several languages. This study aimed to test the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the DTQ (DTQ-C) among adolescent mobile phone users.
One thousand and ninety-seven adolescents who own a mobile phone and are younger than 18 years old completed the DTQ-C and a battery of questionnaires assessing the big five personality traits, negative affect, brooding, self-control, craving, and problematic mobile phone use (PMPU). The psychometric analyses of the DTQ-C were conducted, including exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), reliability, and validity analysis.
The EFA revealed a 10-item two-factor structure (i.e., verbal perseveration and imaginal prefiguration) that was confirmed by the CFA. The results of CFA showed fit indexes of χ/df = 4.83, CFI = 0.967, TLI = 0.954, RMSEA = 0.059, SRMR = 0.032. The total scale had internal consistency reliabilities of 0.93, which demonstrated that DTQ-C presented good reliability. The two dimensions were correlated with PMPU (r = 0.54; r = 0.45), neuroticism (r = 0.18; r = 0.14), conscientiousness (r = -0.19; r = -0.18), depression (r = 0.22; r = 0.16), anxiety (r = 0.26; r = 0.22), stress (r = 0.15; r = 0.10) and self-control (r = -0.29; r = -0.26), which demonstrated that DTQ-C presented good concurrent validity. The two factors of DTQ-C correlated weakly with brooding (ranging from 0.08 to 0.10). The principal component factor analysis of the two dimensions of desire thinking and craving showed that craving and desire thinking belonged to different dimensions. Both of which showed good divergent validity of desire thinking. Additionally, an examination of incremental validity revealed that two factors were both positively associated with PMPU beyond demographic characteristics, big five personality traits, negative affect, and self-control (B = 0.49 and B = 0.13).
It has been found that the 10-item DTQ-C is a reliable and valid measure of desire thinking in Chinese adolescent mobile phone users.
欲望思维是一种有意识和自愿的认知过程,与渴求程度和成瘾行为密切相关。欲望思维问卷(DTQ)可用于测量所有年龄段以及成瘾者的欲望思维。该测量方法也已被翻译成多种语言。本研究旨在检验青少年手机使用者中文版 DTQ(DTQ-C)的心理测量特性。
1097 名年龄在 18 岁以下拥有手机的青少年完成了 DTQ-C 以及一系列问卷,包括大五人格特质、消极情绪、沉思、自我控制、渴求以及手机使用问题(PMPU)。对 DTQ-C 进行了心理测量分析,包括探索性因素分析(EFA)、验证性因素分析(CFA)、信度和效度分析。
EFA 显示出 10 项 2 因素结构(即言语坚持和想象预构),CFA 证实了这一点。CFA 的结果显示,χ/df=4.83,CFI=0.967,TLI=0.954,RMSEA=0.059,SRMR=0.032。总量表的内部一致性信度为 0.93,表明 DTQ-C 具有良好的信度。两个维度与 PMPU(r=0.54;r=0.45)、神经质(r=0.18;r=0.14)、尽责性(r=-0.19;r=-0.18)、抑郁(r=0.22;r=0.16)、焦虑(r=0.26;r=0.22)、压力(r=0.15;r=0.10)和自我控制(r=-0.29;r=-0.26)相关,表明 DTQ-C 具有良好的同时效度。DTQ-C 的两个维度与沉思的相关性较弱(范围为 0.08 至 0.10)。欲望思维和渴求的两个维度的主成分因子分析表明,渴求与欲望思维属于不同维度。两者均表现出欲望思维的良好发散效度。此外,增量效度检验表明,两个因素除了人口统计学特征、大五人格特质、消极情绪和自我控制之外,还与 PMPU 呈正相关(B=0.49 和 B=0.13)。
发现 10 项 DTQ-C 是中国青少年手机使用者欲望思维的可靠有效测量工具。