Psychometric Properties of the Internet Addiction Test in Chinese Adolescents
Author(s) -
Ching-Man Lai,
K K Mak,
Hiroko Watanabe,
Rebecca P. Ang,
Joyce S. Pang,
Roger Ho
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of pediatric psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.054
H-Index - 121
eISSN - 1465-735X
pISSN - 0146-8693
DOI - 10.1093/jpepsy/jst022
Subject(s) - cronbach's alpha , addiction , psychology , confirmatory factor analysis , internal consistency , convergent validity , clinical psychology , concurrent validity , scale (ratio) , the internet , test (biology) , psychometrics , structural equation modeling , psychiatry , statistics , mathematics , world wide web , paleontology , physics , quantum mechanics , computer science , biology
This study examined the psychometric properties of the Young's Internet Addiction Test (IAT) in 844 Hong Kong Chinese adolescents (37.7% boys) with mean age of 15.9 (standard deviation = 3.5) years.
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