Galanis Petros, Katsiroumpa Aglaia, Moisoglou Ioannis, Konstantakopoulou Olympia
Clinical Epidemiology Laboratory, Faculty of Nursing, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Faculty of Nursing, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece.
AIMS Public Health. 2024 Dec 11;11(4):1172-1197. doi: 10.3934/publichealth.2024061. eCollection 2024.
There is an absence of valid and specific psychometric tools to assess TikTok addiction. Considering that the use of TikTok is increasing rapidly and the fact that TikTok addiction may be a different form of social media addiction, there is an urge for a valid tool to measure TikTok addiction.
To develop and validate a tool to measure TikTok addiction.
First, we performed an extensive literature review to create a pool of items to measure TikTok addiction. Then, we employed a panel of experts from different backgrounds to examine the content validity of the initial set of items. We examined face validity by performing cognitive interviews with TikTok users and calculating the item-level face validity index. Our study population included 429 adults who have been TikTok users for at least the last 12 months. We employed exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis to examine the construct validity of the TikTok Addiction Scale (TTAS). We examined the concurrent validity by using the Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale (BSMAS), the Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4), and the Big Five Inventory-10 (BFI-10). We used Cronbach's alpha, McDonald's Omega, Cohen's kappa, and intraclass correlation coefficient to examine reliability.
We found that the TTAS is a six-factor 15-item scale with robust psychometric properties. Factor analysis revealed a six-factor structure, (1) salience, (2) mood modification, (3) tolerance, (4) withdrawal symptoms, (5) conflict, and (6) relapse, which accounted for 80.70% of the total variance. The concurrent validity of the TTAS was excellent since we found significant correlations between TTAS and BSMAS, PHQ-4, and BFI-10. Cronbach's alpha and McDonald's Omega for the TTAS were 0.911 and 0.914, respectively.
The TTAS appears to be a short, easy-to-use, and valid scale to measure TikTok addiction. Considering the limitations of our study, we recommend the translation and validation of the TTAS in other languages and populations to further examine the validity of the scale.
目前缺乏评估TikTok成瘾的有效且特定的心理测量工具。鉴于TikTok的使用正在迅速增加，且TikTok成瘾可能是社交媒体成瘾的一种不同形式，因此迫切需要一种有效的工具来测量TikTok成瘾。
开发并验证一种测量TikTok成瘾的工具。
首先，我们进行了广泛的文献综述，以创建一组用于测量TikTok成瘾的条目。然后，我们聘请了来自不同背景的专家小组来检查初始条目集的内容效度。我们通过对TikTok用户进行认知访谈并计算条目层面的表面效度指数来检查表面效度。我们的研究对象包括429名在过去至少12个月内一直使用TikTok的成年人。我们采用探索性和验证性因素分析来检查TikTok成瘾量表（TTAS）的结构效度。我们通过使用卑尔根社交媒体成瘾量表（BSMAS）、患者健康问卷-4（PHQ-4）和大五人格量表-10（BFI-10）来检查同时效度。我们使用克朗巴赫α系数、麦克唐纳ω系数、科恩κ系数和组内相关系数来检查信度。
我们发现TTAS是一个包含15个条目的六因素量表，具有强大的心理测量特性。因素分析揭示了一个六因素结构，（1）显著性，（2）情绪调节，（3）耐受性，（4）戒断症状，（5）冲突，以及（6）复发，这六个因素解释了总方差的80.70%。由于我们发现TTAS与BSMAS、PHQ-4和BFI-10之间存在显著相关性，因此TTAS的同时效度非常好。TTAS的克朗巴赫α系数和麦克唐纳ω系数分别为0.911和0.914。
TTAS似乎是一种简短、易于使用且有效的测量TikTok成瘾的量表。考虑到我们研究的局限性，我们建议对TTAS进行其他语言和人群的翻译与验证，以进一步检验该量表的效度。
