Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, CIUSSS de l'Estrie-CHUS (Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke), Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.
BMC Psychol. 2023 Mar 31;11(1):92. doi: 10.1186/s40359-023-01141-2.
Social media use has grown dramatically since its inception in the early 2000s and has further increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Problematic use of social media (PUSM) is a type of behavioural addiction which has generated increasing interest among mental health clinicians and scholars in the last decade. PUSM is associated with multiple psychiatric conditions and is known to interfere with patients' daily functioning. There is no single accepted definition of PUSM, nor means of measuring it, in the literature. The Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale (BSMAS) is a helpful tool for identifying PUSM. This paper aims to validate BSMAS and to translate it from English into French, with the goal of making this clinical screening tool for PUSM available in French-language contexts.
This study explored the psychometric validity of the French version of the BSMAS in a sample of 247 adolescents, who were either psychiatric inpatients (the hospitalized group, n = 123) or recruited in local high schools (the community group, n = 124).
The adolescents in the sample reported an increase in their social media use during the COVID-19 pandemic. This increase was more pronounced in the hospitalized group. Confirmatory factorial analysis showed an excellent fit, very good internal consistency and established convergent validity for the French version of the BSMAS. A total of 15.4% of the hospitalization group and 6.5% of the community group met the recommended clinical cutoff of 24 on the BSMAS, suggesting problematic use of social media.
The French version of BSMAS is a psychometrically validated and clinically useful tool to screen for PUSM in adolescents.
自 21 世纪初社交媒体问世以来，其使用量呈爆炸式增长，在 COVID-19 大流行期间更是进一步增加。社交媒体使用问题（PUSM）是一种行为成瘾，在过去十年中引起了心理健康临床医生和学者的越来越多的关注。PUSM 与多种精神疾病有关，并已知会干扰患者的日常功能。文献中没有关于 PUSM 的单一公认定义或测量方法。卑尔根社交媒体成瘾量表（BSMAS）是识别 PUSM 的有用工具。本文旨在验证 BSMAS 并将其从英文翻译成法文，以使这种针对 PUSM 的临床筛查工具在法语环境中可用。
本研究在 247 名青少年样本中探讨了 BSMAS 法的心理测量学效度，这些青少年要么是住院患者（住院组，n=123），要么是在当地高中招募的（社区组，n=124）。
样本中的青少年报告称，在 COVID-19 大流行期间，他们增加了社交媒体的使用。住院组的增幅更为明显。验证性因素分析显示，BSMAS 法的法文版具有极好的拟合度、非常好的内部一致性和建立的收敛效度。住院组中有 15.4%和社区组中有 6.5%的青少年达到了 BSMAS 建议的 24 分临床截止值，表明存在社交媒体使用问题。
BSMAS 法的法文版是一种心理测量学有效的、临床上有用的工具，可用于筛查青少年的 PUSM。
