scholarly journals Validation of the Social Media Disorder Scale in Adolescents: Findings From a Large-Scale Nationally Representative Sample

Assessment ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 107319112110272
Author(s):  
Maartje Boer ◽  
Gonneke W. J. M. Stevens ◽  
Catrin Finkenauer ◽  
Ina M. Koning ◽  
Regina J. J. M. van den Eijnden
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Sleep Problems ◽  
Scale Validation ◽  
Test Information ◽  
The Social ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Validation Research

Large-scale validation research on instruments measuring problematic social media use (SMU) is scarce. Using a nationally representative sample of 6,626 Dutch adolescents aged 12 to 16 years, the present study examined the psychometric properties of the nine-item Social Media Disorder scale. The structural validity was solid, because one underlying factor was identified, with adequate factor loadings. The internal consistency was good, but the test information was most reliable at moderate to high scores on the scale’s continuum. The factor structure was measurement invariant across different subpopulations. Three subgroups were identified, distinguished by low, medium, and high probabilities of endorsing the criteria. Higher levels of problematic SMU were associated with higher probabilities of mental, school, and sleep problems, confirming adequate criterion validity. Girls, lower educated adolescents, 15-year-olds, and non-Western adolescents were most likely to report problematic SMU. Given its good psychometric properties, the scale is suitable for research on problematic SMU among adolescents.

scholarly journals Validation of the Social Media Disorder Scale in Adolescents: Findings from a Large-Scale Nationally Representative Sample

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maartje Boer ◽  
gonneke stevens ◽  
Catrin Finkenauer ◽  
H.M. Koning Ina ◽  
Regina van den Eijnden
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Sleep Problems ◽  
Scale Validation ◽  
Test Information ◽  
The Social ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Validation Research

Large-scale validation research on instruments measuring problematic social media use (SMU) is scarce. Using a nationally representative sample of 6,626 Dutch adolescents aged 12 to 16, the present study examined the psychometric properties of the nine-item Social Media Disorder-scale. The structural validity was solid, because one underlying factor was identified, with adequate factor loadings. The internal consistency was good, but the test information was most reliable at moderate to high scores on the scale’s continuum. The factor structure was measurement invariant across different subpopulations. Three subgroups were identified, distinguished by low, medium, and high probabilities of endorsing the criteria. Higher levels of problematic SMU were associated with higher probabilities of mental, school, and sleep problems, confirming adequate criterion validity. Girls, lower educated adolescents, 15-year-olds, and non-Western adolescents were most likely to report problematic SMU. Given its good psychometric properties, the scale is suitable for research on problematic SMU among adolescents.

Psychometric properties of the ASQ–3 in a nationally representative sample of Uruguay

2021 ◽  
Vol 157 ◽  
pp. 105367
Author(s):  
Lucía Alvarez-Nuñez ◽  
Meliza González ◽  
Fanny Rudnitzky ◽  
Alejandro Vásquez-Echeverría
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
Nationally Representative

scholarly journals Three Versions of the Perceived Stress Scale: Psychometric Evaluation in a Nationally Representative Sample of Chinese Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (16) ◽  
pp. 8312
Author(s):  
Zhuang She ◽  
Dan Li ◽  
Wei Zhang ◽  
Ningning Zhou ◽  
Juzhe Xi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Psychometric Evaluation ◽  
Perceived Stress Scale ◽  
Good Reliability ◽  
Stress Scale ◽  
Nationally Representative

(1) Background: The COVID-19 outbreak has created pressure in people’s daily lives, further threatening public health. Thus, it is important to assess people’s perception of stress during COVID-19 for both research and practical purposes. The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) is one of the most widely used instruments to measure perceived stress; however, previous validation studies focused on specific populations, possibly limiting the generalization of results. (2) Methods: This study tested the psychometric properties of three versions of the Chinese Perceived Stress Scale (CPSS-14, CPSS-10, and CPSS-4) in the Chinese general population during the COVID-19 pandemic. A commercial online survey was employed to construct a nationally representative sample of 1133 adults in Mainland China (548 males and 585 females) during a one-week period. (3) Results: The two-factor (positivity and negativity) solution for the three versions of the CPSS showed a good fit with the data. The CPSS-14 and CPSS-10 had very good reliability and the CPSS-4 showed acceptable reliability. Scores on all three versions of the CPSS were significantly correlated in the expected direction with health-related variables (e.g., depression, anxiety, and perceived COVID-19 risk), supporting the concurrent validity of the CPSS. (4) Conclusions: All three versions of the CPSS appear to be appropriate for use in research with samples of adults in the Chinese general population under the COVID-19 crisis. The CPSS-10 and CPSS-14 both have strong psychometric properties, but the CPSS-10 would have more utility because it is shorter than the CPSS-14. However, the CPSS-4 is an acceptable alternative when administration time is limited.

Stepping into the (Social Media) Game

2014 ◽  
pp. 711-730
Author(s):  
Jimmy Sanderson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
National Football League ◽  
Major League Baseball ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
National Basketball Association ◽  
Parasocial Interaction ◽  
Sports Fans ◽  
The Social ◽  
Identity Expression

This chapter explores how rookie athletes in Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Basketball Association (NBA), National Football League (NFL), and National Hockey League (NHL), used Twitter as an identity expression tool. A representative sample of tweets from athletes selected in the first round of the 2011 amateur draft of each sports league was selected for analysis. Results revealed that identity manifested in the following ways: (a) Athletes as dedicated workers; (b) Athletes as pop culture consumers; (c) Athletes as sports fans; (d) Athletes as motivators; (e) Athletes as information seekers; and (f) Athletes as everyday people. Through social media, athletes can more actively and diversely assert their identity. This action fosters identification, liking, and parasocial interaction with fans as athletes appear more approachable and similar. The ability to construct and disseminate a variety of identities holds important implications for athletes, which are discussed in the concluding section of the chapter.

scholarly journals The performance of publicness in social media: tracing patterns in tweets after a disaster

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 584-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Matheson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Stable Set ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Large Scale Analysis ◽  
The Social

This article sets out to contribute to the critical understanding of public communication in social media by studying the use of Twitter after a severe earthquake in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2011. It also sets out to contribute to methodologies for studying this particular kind of publicness. It argues that the contours of the ‘social imaginary’ of the public, which are usually so hard to delineate and can be approached only in fragments or typical form, can be identified a little more clearly in the traces that people leave behind in their social media communication at critical, reflexive moments such as in the aftermath of disaster. The article draws on computer-assisted discourse analysis, specifically a corpus-linguistic-informed analysis of half a million tweets, in order to describe four main public discursive moves that were prevalent in this form of public communication. This is not to claim to describe a stable set of norms, but in fact the reverse. The article suggests that empirical, large-scale analysis of public communication in different situations, media and places opens up a project in which the varying norms of public communication are described and critiqued as they emerge in a range of discursive situations.

scholarly journals Perceiving education from Facebook profile pictures

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 550-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael V. Reiss ◽  
Milena Tsvetkova
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
Mixed Effects ◽  
Mixed Effects Models ◽  
Outdoor Activities ◽  
Online Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Profile Pictures ◽  
Better Than

Our upbringing and education influence not only how we present and distinguish ourselves in the social world but also how we perceive others. We apply this central sociological idea to the social media context. We conduct a large-scale online study to investigate whether observers can correctly guess the education of others from their Facebook profile pictures. Using the binomial test and cross-classified mixed-effects models, we show that observers can assess the education of depicted persons better than chance, especially when they share the same educational background and have experience with the social media. We also find that posting pictures of outdoor activities is a strong signal of having higher education, while professional photographs can obscure education signals. The findings expand our knowledge of social interaction and self-expression online and offer new insights for understanding social influence on social media.

scholarly journals Is LinkedIn making you more successful? The informational benefits derived from public social media

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 2685-2702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonja Utz
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Weak Ties ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Timely Access ◽  
Network Composition

This article uses a social capital framework to examine whether and how the use of three types of publicly accessible social media (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook) is related to professional informational benefits among a representative sample of Dutch online users. Professional informational benefits were conceptualized as the (timely) access to relevant information and being referred to career opportunities. The effect of content and structure of the respective online network on professional informational benefits was examined on the general (users vs. non-users of a platform) and more fine-grained level (within users of a specific platform). Overall, users of LinkedIn and Twitter reported higher informational benefits than non-users, whereas the Facebook users reported lower informational benefits. Posting about work and strategically selecting ties consistently predicted informational benefits. The network composition mattered most on LinkedIn; strong and weak ties predicted informational benefits. The results demonstrate the usefulness of the social capital framework.

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