Content Validity and Test-Retest Reliability of a Questionnaire to Measure Virtual Social Network Addiction Among Students
| Author | Samaneh Torkian | en |
| Author | Armita Shahesmaeili | en |
| Author | Neda Malekmohammadi | en |
| Author | Vahid Khosravi | en |
| Orcid | Samaneh Torkian [0000-0002-7913-2801] | en |
| Orcid | Armita Shahesmaeili [0000-0001-9270-319X] | en |
| Orcid | Neda Malekmohammadi [0000-0002-2693-8430] | en |
| Orcid | Vahid Khosravi [0000-0002-7994-800X] | en |
| Issued Date | 2020-03-31 | en |
| Abstract | Background: Addiction to virtual social networks (VSNs), especially among students, has become a crisis during the recent years. Objectives: This study aimed to assess the validity and reliability of a questionnaire on VSN addiction among Iranian university students. Patients and Methods: The initial questionnaire was designed based on extensive literature review and consulting with experts. To measure the item and content validity indexes (I-CVI and S-CVI) and to measure the content validity ratio (CVR), a panel of 24 experts reviewed the questionnaire. To measure the test-retest reliability, the questionnaire was administered on 30 students within the interval of 14 - 21 days and the intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) was calculated. Cronbach’s alpha and the corrected item-total correlation were calculated to measure internal consistency. All analysis was done using SPSS 20 software. Results: All items had satisfactory CVR and I-CVI. The S-CVI was 0.98. The value of Cronbach’s alpha was 0.88. The corrected item-total correlation for all items, except one, was in acceptable range. This item was removed from the final questionnaire. The test-retest reliability of the questionnaire was almost perfect (ICC = 0.9). Conclusions: The current study provides a valid and reliable questionnaire to measure VSN addiction among university students. The designed instrument could be used in addiction evaluation studies. | en |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.5812/ijhrba.92353 | en |
| Keyword | Behavior | en |
| Keyword | Addictive | en |
| Keyword | Social Networking | en |
| Keyword | Validation Study | en |
| Keyword | Reliability | en |
| Keyword | Student | en |
| Keyword | Psychometrics | en |
| Publisher | Brieflands | en |
| Title | Content Validity and Test-Retest Reliability of a Questionnaire to Measure Virtual Social Network Addiction Among Students | en |
| Type | Research Article | en |
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