Faghani Nasrin, Moghadasin Maryam
Department of Clinical Psychology, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.
Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Education, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran.
Iran J Psychiatry. 2023 Oct;18(4):406-419. doi: 10.18502/ijps.v18i4.13628.
Social anxiety refers to an excessive concern or fear about social situations. It seems that social media, which has become one of the most popular and effective tools for communication today, can be one of the contexts of social anxiety. Due to the lack of a Persian instrument to assess social anxiety in the context of social networks, the current study was undertaken to analyze the psychometric criteria of the Iranian version of the Social Anxiety Scale for Social Media Users (SAS-SMU). The SAS-SMU is a 21-item questionnaire designed by Alkis and colleagues (2017) to measure social anxiety emerging from the social media platforms. In this study, a total of 842 participants within the age range of 11 to 82 years old (mean age 33.11 ± 12.134), 59% female) answered the questions in an online survey. The original version of the scale was translated into Persian using the back translation procedure. All participants completed a Demographic Questionnaire, the SAS-SMU, and the Beck Anxiety Inventory. In order to analyze the collected data, internal and external consistency, factor analysis, construct validity, and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were examined. A significance level of less than 0.05 was considered to determine statistical significance. Four subscales were obtained from the exploratory factor analysis (SCA, PCA, IA, and SEA), which were confirmed by the confirmatory factor analysis. Cronbach's alpha for internal consistency was found to be 0.931 for the total scale and 0.920, 0.846, 0.901, 0.828 for SCA, PCA, IA, and SEA, respectively. In addition, the test-retest scores of 30 participants (interval: between 2 to 3 weeks) for all four subscales (SCA = 0.641, PCA = 0.773, IA = 0.688, SEA = 0.727) indicated acceptable stability of the questionnaire over time. This study validates the Persian version of the SAS-SMU for use in studies in the field of psychological problems related to social media and online communications.
社交焦虑是指对社交情境过度关注或恐惧。如今，社交媒体已成为最流行且最有效的沟通工具之一，但它似乎也可能是引发社交焦虑的情境之一。由于缺乏用于评估社交网络情境下社交焦虑的波斯语工具，本研究旨在分析伊朗版社交媒体用户社交焦虑量表（SAS - SMU）的心理测量标准。SAS - SMU是由阿尔基斯及其同事于2017年设计的一份包含21个条目的问卷，用于测量源自社交媒体平台的社交焦虑。在本研究中，共有842名年龄在11至82岁之间（平均年龄33.11±12.134，59%为女性）的参与者在在线调查中回答了问题。该量表的原始版本通过回译程序翻译成波斯语。所有参与者都完成了一份人口统计学问卷、SAS - SMU以及贝克焦虑量表。为了分析收集到的数据，对内部和外部一致性、因子分析、结构效度以及验证性因子分析（CFA）进行了检验。显著性水平小于0.05被视为具有统计学意义。从探索性因子分析中得到了四个子量表（SCA、PCA、IA和SEA），并通过验证性因子分析得到了证实。总量表的内部一致性Cronbach's alpha系数为0.931，SCA、PCA、IA和SEA的系数分别为0.920、0.846、0.901和0.828。此外，30名参与者（间隔时间为2至3周）在所有四个子量表上的重测分数（SCA = 0.641，PCA = 0.773，IA = 0.688，SEA = 0.727）表明该问卷在不同时间具有可接受的稳定性。本研究验证了SAS - SMU的波斯语版本可用于与社交媒体及在线交流相关的心理问题领域的研究。
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