Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw. 2017 Apr;20(4):251-258. doi: 10.1089/cyber.2016.0073.
Caci B1, Cardaci M1, Scrima F2, Tabacchi ME3,4.
Abstract
The studies reported analyze the factorial structure of Facebook Addiction Italian Questionnaire (FAIQ), a variant of 20-item Young’s Internet Addiction Test (IAT). In Study 1, we tested FAIQ psychometric properties using exploratory factor analysis (EFA). In Study 2, we performed a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to verify the FAIQ factorial structure identified through EFA. Results from CFA confirm the presence of a four-factor model accounting for 58 percent of total variance, plus a general higher order factor that best fits the data. Further relationships between FAIQ factor scores, personality, and Facebook usage have been explored.
KEYWORDS: Facebook; Internet addiction; social networking
PMID: 28394208
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