Psycometric study of implementation of Internet Addiction Test with Spanish university students

Authors

  • Verónica Marín-Díaz Universidad de Córdoba
  • Begoña Esther Sampedro Requena Universidad de Córdoba
  • Esther Vega Gea Universidad de Córdoba

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18172/con.3067

Keywords:

Internet, social nets Works, addiction, university student

Abstract

Internet has experienced in recent years an exponential evolution compared to the society growth. At the same time various problems from a different nature have emerged, associated with different tools created under its wing, such as social networks. One of those problems common to many digital resources is addiction. In order to determine the degree of addiction and problematic usage of youngsters to Internet, Young created the Internet Addiction Test. The purpose of this paper has been to validate whether the instrument, with the appropriate modifications (linguistic, cultural and adaptations to the working tool) can really and effectively measure the degree of addiction to social networks. Just to carry out this and following the guidelines of the work by Watters, Keefer, Kloosterman, Summerfeldt and Parker (2013), it has been studied whether this test is equally valid to measure addiction to social networks. For this it has been made a confirmatory exploratory bivariate analysis to a sample of students (N=362) in grades Pre-primary Education, Primary Education, Social Educator, Education and Business Administration from the University of Cordova. The preliminary result was positive, reflecting that this resource canbe used to determine the degree of addiction or problematic usage to both Internet and social networks.

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Published

2017-05-26

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Marín-Díaz, V., Sampedro Requena, B. E., & Vega Gea, E. (2017). Psycometric study of implementation of Internet Addiction Test with Spanish university students. Contextos Educativos. Revista De Educación, 147–161. https://doi.org/10.18172/con.3067

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