This study aims to develop and verify 'SNS Addiction Proneness Scale for College Students' that can be used to measure the addiction proneness in excessive SNS users. To achieve this purpose, this study conducts a research through the following procedures. First, this study conducts a literature rev...
This study aims to develop and verify 'SNS Addiction Proneness Scale for College Students' that can be used to measure the addiction proneness in excessive SNS users. To achieve this purpose, this study conducts a research through the following procedures. First, this study conducts a literature review related to SNS, SNS addiction, Internet addiction, and cellular phone addiction and organizes the 1st preliminary questions based on 8 factor structures: salience, tolerance, mood modification, relapse, withdrawal, conflict, disturbance of adaptive, and virtual life orientation. As the preliminary questions, 18 questions from 'The Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale(BFAS)', an external scale, were used and the meaning of the original scale was reflected to the utmost through translation-back translation and 15 questions from ‘Short-form Internet Addiction Proneness Scale for Adults: Self-report(KS-A)’ were modified. The 1st preliminary questions were modified and supplemented through content validity verification and the 2nd preliminary questions were supplemented by analyzing the interviews with college students and the contents of Internet cases. The 2nd preliminary questions consist of 52 questions with 7 factor structures. The preliminary investigation was carried out in 72 college students attending colleges in Seoul. As analysis method, item analysis, reliability analysis, and exploratory factor analysis were carried out and 31 questions with 7 factor structures were organized. This study was carried out in 331 enrolled students and students on a leave of absence at colleges in Seoul. Like in the preliminary investigation, item analysis, reliability analysis, and exploratory factor analysis were performed and 7 items that were considered as inappropriate for seeking employees and having a high inter-item correlation were finally removed. 24 questions with 4 factors were organized. Next, this study verified the reliability and validity of the finally organized scale. To look at the reliability of scale, control failure and disturbance of adaptive was .84, absorption and tolerance .80, avoidance of negative emotion .81, virtual life orientation and withdrawal .77, and the whole reliability .92. In the concurrent validity, correlation analysis was carried out with three reference scales such as 'Smartphone Addiction Proneness Scale for Adults: Self-diagnosis', 'Loneliness Scale(UCLA Loneliness Scale)', and 'Depression Scale(CES-D)' and there occurred a significant positive correlation, which proved the validity of this scale. To look at the number of questions for each factor, 'control failure and disturbance of adaptive' had 7 questions, 'absorption and tolerance' 7 questions, 'avoidance of negative emotion' 5 questions, and 'virtual life orientation and withdrawal' 5 questions. In the SNS Addiction Proneness Scale for College Students, there was a significant difference in gender, hours of use, and frequency of use, and both loneliness and depression were the variables that could be used to predict the SNS Addiction Proneness. The significance of the study on the SNS Addiction Proneness Scale newly developed is as follows. First, it was possible to strengthen the basis for the initial study on the SNS Addiction Scale. Second, it was possible to increase the reliability of the inter-variable study through the verification later. Third, it became the basic data for understanding the clients who used SNS too excessively in the field of counselling. Despite such contributions, there are still limitations and suggestions as follows. First, as it targeted college students only, validation of the researches targeting ordinary adults and teenagers is required. Second, most of them were those whose addiction Proneness was not that high. Third, further post hoc tests(confirmatory factor analysis, standard point setup, etc) should continue to be carried out. At this point when the concept of smartphone addiction as well as Internet addiction was already established, ‘SNS addiction’ is considered to take its new position as part of media addiction with the flow of time and this study is expected to contribute to the establishment of a new theory in order to adapt to this flow of time.
This study aims to develop and verify 'SNS Addiction Proneness Scale for College Students' that can be used to measure the addiction proneness in excessive SNS users. To achieve this purpose, this study conducts a research through the following procedures. First, this study conducts a literature review related to SNS, SNS addiction, Internet addiction, and cellular phone addiction and organizes the 1st preliminary questions based on 8 factor structures: salience, tolerance, mood modification, relapse, withdrawal, conflict, disturbance of adaptive, and virtual life orientation. As the preliminary questions, 18 questions from 'The Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale(BFAS)', an external scale, were used and the meaning of the original scale was reflected to the utmost through translation-back translation and 15 questions from ‘Short-form Internet Addiction Proneness Scale for Adults: Self-report(KS-A)’ were modified. The 1st preliminary questions were modified and supplemented through content validity verification and the 2nd preliminary questions were supplemented by analyzing the interviews with college students and the contents of Internet cases. The 2nd preliminary questions consist of 52 questions with 7 factor structures. The preliminary investigation was carried out in 72 college students attending colleges in Seoul. As analysis method, item analysis, reliability analysis, and exploratory factor analysis were carried out and 31 questions with 7 factor structures were organized. This study was carried out in 331 enrolled students and students on a leave of absence at colleges in Seoul. Like in the preliminary investigation, item analysis, reliability analysis, and exploratory factor analysis were performed and 7 items that were considered as inappropriate for seeking employees and having a high inter-item correlation were finally removed. 24 questions with 4 factors were organized. Next, this study verified the reliability and validity of the finally organized scale. To look at the reliability of scale, control failure and disturbance of adaptive was .84, absorption and tolerance .80, avoidance of negative emotion .81, virtual life orientation and withdrawal .77, and the whole reliability .92. In the concurrent validity, correlation analysis was carried out with three reference scales such as 'Smartphone Addiction Proneness Scale for Adults: Self-diagnosis', 'Loneliness Scale(UCLA Loneliness Scale)', and 'Depression Scale(CES-D)' and there occurred a significant positive correlation, which proved the validity of this scale. To look at the number of questions for each factor, 'control failure and disturbance of adaptive' had 7 questions, 'absorption and tolerance' 7 questions, 'avoidance of negative emotion' 5 questions, and 'virtual life orientation and withdrawal' 5 questions. In the SNS Addiction Proneness Scale for College Students, there was a significant difference in gender, hours of use, and frequency of use, and both loneliness and depression were the variables that could be used to predict the SNS Addiction Proneness. The significance of the study on the SNS Addiction Proneness Scale newly developed is as follows. First, it was possible to strengthen the basis for the initial study on the SNS Addiction Scale. Second, it was possible to increase the reliability of the inter-variable study through the verification later. Third, it became the basic data for understanding the clients who used SNS too excessively in the field of counselling. Despite such contributions, there are still limitations and suggestions as follows. First, as it targeted college students only, validation of the researches targeting ordinary adults and teenagers is required. Second, most of them were those whose addiction Proneness was not that high. Third, further post hoc tests(confirmatory factor analysis, standard point setup, etc) should continue to be carried out. At this point when the concept of smartphone addiction as well as Internet addiction was already established, ‘SNS addiction’ is considered to take its new position as part of media addiction with the flow of time and this study is expected to contribute to the establishment of a new theory in order to adapt to this flow of time.
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