Psychometric Validation of the Chinese Compulsive Internet Use Scale (CIUS) with Taiwanese High School Adolescents

Psychiatric Quarterly

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 581-596

  Dhir, Amandeep ^a,b   Chen, Sufen ^c   Nieminen, Marko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Compulsive Internet Use Scale; Cross sectional survey; Psychometric validation

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; CHINESE COMPULSIVE INTERNET USE SCALE; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONTENT VALIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; FACE VALIDITY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERNET; INTERNET ADDICTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; OCCUPATION; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; RELIGION; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; TAIWANESE; YOUNG ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX RATIO; TAIWAN;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TAIWAN;

EID: 84944352061     PISSN: 00332720     EISSN: 15736709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11126-015-9351-9     Document Type: Article

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