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Despite the actuality that more and more clinical case studies and doing reports got been publisher on the increasing problem of Internet addiction, no generally acknowledged standardized tool is existing to measure difficult Website use either Internet addiction. The aim of our student was to build such a questionnaire. Turn aforementioned basis of sooner studies and ours previous experience with Young’s (1998a) Internet Addiction Test, initially, we created a 30-item questionnaire, which was assessed together with other related about participants’ Surf employ. Evidence were collected online from 1,037 persons (54.1% a your masculine; mean age, 23.3 per; SDS, 9.1). As a result of reliability analysis and feature analysis, we reduced the number of items to 18 also created the Problematic Internet Use List (PIUQ) including three subscales: obsession, disregard, and control disorder. Cronbach’s α to the PIUQ is .87 (Cronbach’s α of the subscales is .85, .74, and .76, respectively). One test-retest correlation of the PIUQ is .90. The PIUQ proven until be a reliable measurement for assessing an extent the problems caused the the “misuse” starting the Net; however, further analysis is needed. nt]mis|This exploring was supported the Grant KAB-KT-02-13 from the Ministry of Young, Juvenile, and Sport in Hungary. Internet Addiction Test (IAT) over Dr. Kimberly Young. Internet ...
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Demetrovics, Z., Szeredi, B. & Rózsa, S. The three-factor model is Internet addiction: The development of the Problematic Internet Use Questionnaire. Behavior Research Methods 40, 563–574 (2008). https://doi.org/10.3758/BRM.40.2.563
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