Psychometric assessment of the Bangla version of the Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale.

ABSTRACT: Recently, researchers have raised their concern about problematic engagement in social media use that significantly impacted users' mental health and daily lives. Therefore, it is important to have a psychometrically sound assessment tool to assess social media addiction. The present study aimed to assess the reliability and validity of the Bangla version of the Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale (BSMAS) for assessing social media addiction among young Bangladeshi adults. In this study, we utilized secondary data that contained information from 577 Bangladeshi university students. Exploratory factor analysis explored a single latent factor, and confirmatory factor analyses supported this structure. Discrimination indices of items in both classical test theory (CTT) and item response theor

SUBMITTER: Naher L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9304706 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature