Department of Molecular Psychology, Institute of Psychology and Education, Ulm University, Helmholtzstr. 8/1, Ulm, 89081, Germany.
Molecular Psychology, Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
BMC Psychol. 2024 Feb 17;12(1):81. doi: 10.1186/s40359-024-01541-y.
We introduce a novel measure for assessing TikTok overuse, called the TikTok Use Disorder-Questionnaire (TTUD-Q). As part of ongoing investigations into the suitability of the World Health Organization's (WHO) framework for diagnosing Gaming Disorder in the context of social media overuse, we developed this questionnaire by adapting the WHO framework, replacing the term "gaming" with "TikTok use".
In order to address this question, we investigated the psychometric properties of the newly designed TTUD-Q and assessed its associations with the BFI-10 (assessing the Big Five of Personality) and the PHQ-8 (assessing depressive tendencies).
In this study, involving a final sample of 378 participants, we observed that higher levels of neuroticism were linked to greater tendencies toward TikTok Use Disorder (TTUD). Furthermore, we identified that this association was mediated by depressive tendencies. Similar trends emerged when investigating the relationship between lower levels of conscientiousness and higher TTUD tendencies, with depressive tendencies once again serving as a mediator.
Our research sets the foundation for future studies that should delve deeper into examining individual differences in TTUD using the WHO framework originally designed for Gaming Disorder.
我们引入了一种新的评估 TikTok 过度使用的方法，称为 TikTok 使用障碍问卷（TTUD-Q）。作为对世界卫生组织（WHO）框架在社交媒体过度使用背景下诊断游戏障碍适用性的持续调查的一部分，我们通过改编 WHO 框架开发了这个问卷，将“游戏”一词替换为“TikTok 使用”。
为了解决这个问题，我们研究了新设计的 TTUD-Q 的心理测量特性，并评估了它与 BFI-10（评估人格的五大特质）和 PHQ-8（评估抑郁倾向）的关联。
在这项涉及最终 378 名参与者的研究中，我们发现神经质水平越高，TikTok 使用障碍（TTUD）的倾向就越大。此外，我们发现这种关联是由抑郁倾向介导的。当研究责任心较低与 TTUD 倾向较高之间的关系时，也出现了类似的趋势，抑郁倾向再次充当了中介。
我们的研究为未来使用最初为游戏障碍设计的 WHO 框架更深入地研究 TTUD 中的个体差异奠定了基础。
