ArticleInternational journal of methods in psychiatric research2019
Development of a short form of the compulsive internet use scale in Switzerland.
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- Predictors for Acceptance of Sexual Aggression Myths Among People Using Cyberporn: Cross-Sectional Study.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
- Internet addiction: the Czech and Slovak adolescent population.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Predictors of compulsive cyberporn use: A machine learning analysis.Addictive behaviors reports · 2024Article
- Problematic Internet Use in adolescents: New psychometric evidence for the Spanish short form of the Compulsive Internet Use Scale.Brain and behavior · 2023Article
- Compulsive Internet Use Scale for assessment of self-reported problematic internet use in primary school-aged children.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Evaluation of the Psychometric Properties of the Arab Compulsive Internet Use Scale (CIUS) by Item Response Theory Modeling (IRT).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Stress and Mental Health among Children/Adolescents, Their Parents, and Young Adults during the First COVID-19 Lockdown in Switzerland.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Online Gambling's Associations With Gambling Disorder and Related Problems in a Representative Sample of Young Swiss Men.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Development of a short form of the compulsive internet use scale in Switzerland.International journal of methods in psychiatric research · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectivesThe study aims to develop a short form of the compulsive internet use scale (CIUS), which can be used in multitopic and general population health surveys and is invariant across different sexes, linguistic regions, and ages.
methodsTwo general population surveys from 2013 and 2015 were used as learning (n = 1,371) and validation samples (n = 1,550), respectively. Reducing items from the original CIUS was based on the following: (a) correlated errors between items, (b) differential item functioning, and (c) measurement invariance. Methods used item response theory and latent confirmatory factor analysis for ordinal variables.
resultsThe eight-item short form maintained the five dimensions of the original scale and was metric and mostly scale invariant for sex, region, and age. It fell marginally short of scale invariance (ΔCFI < 0.01) for regions in the learning sample and for sexes in the validation sample (both ΔCFI = 0.013, p < 0.01). Root mean square error of approximation was 0.045 and 0.036, and comparative fit index was 0.989 and 0.995, in the learning and validation samples, respectively, showing excellent fit of the model to data. Correlations with the full scale were r = 0.966 (learning) and r = 0.969 (validation).
conclusionIf the full 14-item CIUS is a valid, reliable screening instrument, then the short eight-item form is too, and can be used in multitopic, general population health surveys.
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