ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2021
Assessing Problematic Social Media Use in Adolescents by Parental Ratings: Development and Validation of the Social Media Disorder Scale for Parents (SMDS-P).
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- Prevalence of Problematic Digital Media Use Among Young Adults: Protocol for a Systematic Review.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Adverse Childhood Experiences and Problematic Social Media Use: Longitudinal Evidence Among Chinese Adolescents.Journal of adolescence · 2026Article
- The Effect of Digital Era on Human Visual Working Memory.Brain and behavior · 2025Review
- Bidirectional Within-Family Effects of Restrictive Mediation Practices and Adolescents' Problematic Social Media Use.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2024Article
- Potential use of large language models for mitigating students' problematic social media use: ChatGPT as an example.World journal of psychiatry · 2024Article
- Parents Rate Problematic Video Streaming in Adolescents: Conceptualization and External Assessment of a New Clinical Phenomenon Based on the ICD-11 Criteria of Gaming Disorder.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Social Media Usage, Working Memory, and Depression: An Experimental Investigation among University Students.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- ICD-11-Based Assessment of Social Media Use Disorder in Adolescents: Development and Validation of the Social Media Use Disorder Scale for Adolescents.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe problematic use of social media (SM) is a rising phenomenon, especially in adolescents. It can be assessed by self-rating screeners such as the Social Media Disorder Scale (SMDS). However, young age or symptom denial might reduce adolescent assessment accuracy. Therefore, the development and validation of a parental scale (SMDS-P) is desirable.
methodA representative sample of 961 parents and corresponding frequently SM-using children aged 10 to 17 years participated in an online study. Factorial analyses were performed to determine item structure. Adolescents' SMDS self-reports, SM usage time, emotional dysregulation, and academic performance were used to assess validity. The SMDS-P cut-off value was calculated by ROC-analysis.
resultsA one-factorial structure of the SMDS-P could be confirmed. The internal consistency was good (Cronbach's α = 0.85, McDonald's ω = 0.88) and the accordance between parental and self-ratings moderate (kappa = 0.51). SMDS-P was positively associated with adolescents' self-ratings (r = 0.68), SM usage time (r = 0.26) and frequency (ϱ = 0.16) as well as with emotional dysregulation (r = 0.35) in a highly significant manner.
conclusionsSMDS-P offers a promising new approach to assess problematic SM usage in adolescence. Further studies including clinical validations are required.
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