Measurement invariance across young adults from Hong Kong and Taiwan among three internet-related addiction scales: Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale (BSMAS), Smartphone Application-Based Addiction Scale (SABAS), and Internet Gaming Disorder Scale-Short Form (IGDS-SF9) (Study Part A)

Abstract

Measurement invariance across young adults from Hong Kong and Taiwan among three internet-related addiction scales: Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale (BSMAS), Smartphone Application-Based Addiction Scale (SABAS), and Internet Gaming Disorder Scale-Short Form (IGDS-SF9) (Study Part A)

Is it meaningful to distinguish between Facebook addiction and social networking sites addiction? Psychometric analysis of Facebook addiction and social networking sites addiction scales

“…The BSMAS has shown good validity and reliability in previous research (Andreassen et al 2016;Andreassen et al 2017;Bányai et al 2017;Lin et al 2017;Monacis et al 2017). The scale has shown measurement invariance across two Chinese cultural areas (Leung et al 2020), as well as time invariance (Chen et al 2020). In the present study the Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient was .77.…”

“…While the names "Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale" and "Bergen Social Networking Addiction Scale" are used interchangeably in the literature (Andreassen et al 2017;Andreassen et al 2017), we use in the following "social networking sites" as social media and social networking sites reflect similar but yet distinct phenomena (see Kuss and Griffiths 2017). The psychometric robustness of the BSMAS has been examined in Italian (Monacis et al 2017), Hungarian (Bányai et al 2017), Persian (Lin et al 2017), and Chinese (Leung et al 2020;Chen et al 2020) samples, where it has showed good properties. Although previous studies have used a variety of methods to examine this scale, there is currently no study that has investigated the psychometric properties of the BSMAS in comparison to the BFAS.…”

Relationships between Severity of Internet Gaming Disorder, Severity of Problematic Social Media Use, Sleep Quality and Psychological Distress

“…BSMAS scores correlated with IGDS9-SF scores and assessments of anxiety and depression [34]. The BSMAS has been previously validated among Hong Kong participants [45,46]. The internal consistency of the BSMAS in the present study was 0.83.…”

“…The IGDS9-SF has demonstrated high internal consistency (α = 0.87) and low floor or ceiling effects [44]. The IGDS9-SF has also been validated among Hong Kong participants [45,46]. The internal consistency of the IGDS9-SF in the present study was 0.91.…”

Time invariance of three ultra-brief internet-related instruments: Smartphone Application-Based Addiction Scale (SABAS), Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale (BSMAS), and the nine-item Internet Gaming Disorder Scale- Short Form (IGDS-SF9) (Study Part B)

“…Moreover, two Hong Kong students were removed from the analyses because they wanted their data removed from the follow-up study. They clearly indicated that their data could be used in a previously related study (i.e., Leung et al, 2019) but not in the present study. More specifically, the previous study used baseline data to establish the measurement invariance of the three studied instruments (i.e., SABAS, BSMAS, and IGDS-SF9) across Hong Kong and Taiwan university students (Leung et al, 2019).…”