Development and Psychometric Assessment of the Problematic QQ Use Scale among Adolescents.

ABSTRACT: The QQ social media platform is very popular among Chinese adolescents. As with other social media platforms (e.g., Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc.), there have been increasing reports that the use of QQ can be potentially problematic to a minority of users. However, unlike these other social media platforms, there is currently no scale to assess the risk of problematic QQ use. The present study developed the Problematic QQ Use Scale (PQQUS) among Chinese adolescents based on six core criteria of behavioral addiction (salience, tolerance, mood modification, loss of control, withdrawal, and conflict) that have been used in the development of other social media addiction scales. The scale was administered to a sample of 1008 Chinese school children to assess its psychometric properties, u

SUBMITTER: Liu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8268458 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature