Uso Problemático de Internet en adolescentes: Validación en español de la Escala de Uso Compulsivo de Internet (CIUS)

Abstract

Problematic use of the Internet among adolescents has risen in the last decade. The Compulsive Internet Use Scale (CIUS) is one of the most frequently internationally-used tools developed to assess Problematic Internet Use (PIU). However, evidence concerning its validity and reliability in its Spanish version for the adolescent population is currently lacking. Thus, the main goal of the present study was to analyse the psychometric properties of CIUS scores in a large sample of Spanish adolescents. The sample consisted of 1,790 participants (53.7% female, mean age = 15.70 years old, SD = 1.26). The one-dimensional model displayed appropriate goodness of fit indices after error covariance of five items were allowed to correlate. Strong measurement invariance was found for the one-dimensional model across age and gender. The McDonald's Omega coefficient for the total score was 0.91. Furthermore, PIU was positively associated with different indicators of poor wellbeing and psychological difficulties and negatively associated with prosocial behaviour, selfesteem and sense of belonging to the educational centre. The study provided evidence of validity for the CIUS, confirming its utility for screening PIU in non-clinical adolescents.

Prevalence of phubbing behaviour in school and university students in Spain

“…The 14 items are rated on a four-point scale ranging from 0 (indicating never) to 4 (indicating very often). The present study used the CIUS adapted to the Spanish context ( Lopez-Fernandez et al, 2019 ; Ortuño-Sierra et al, 2022 ), which had a McDonald’s omega coefficient of 0.912.…”

Prevalence of Problematic Internet Use among Spanish Adolescents

“…A recent study (López-Fernández et al, 2019) analyzed the psychometric properties of different versions (CIUS-14, CIUS-9, CIUS-7, CIUS-5) developed in eight languages (German, French, English, Finnish, Spanish, Italian, Polish, and Hungarian) and endorsed its use as valid and especially useful for its brevity. Similarly, the 14-item scale in Spanish adolescent population has also demonstrated adequate psychometric properties and a unidimensional structure (Ortuño-Sierra et al, 2022).…”

Propiedades Psicométricas De La Versión en Español Del Test Addiction Internet en Estudiantes Universitarios

“…En Bogotá, se llevó a cabo el análisis psicométrico de la Escala de Adicción al Internet de Lima (EAIL), en estudiantes de secundaria, muestran que el instrumento posee una confiabilidad de 0.798 (Berrio et al, 2018) y en adolescentes mexicanos (Lugo-Salazar y Pineda-García, 2021). En España, se aplicó en adolescentes la Escala de Uso Compulsivo de Internet (CIUS) en la versión español, para el análisis de validez y fiabilidad, la puntuación total tuvo 0,91 de coeficiente Omega de McDonald, siendo apropiado para medir el uso compulsivo de internet en la muestra (Ortuño-Sierra et al, 2022).…”