Simple construct evaluation with latent class analysis: An investigation of Facebook addiction and the development of a short form of the Facebook Addiction Test (F-AT)

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 869-879

  Dantlgraber, Michael ^a   Wetzel, Eunike ^a   Schützenberger, Petra ^b   Stieger, Stefan ^a   Reips, Ulf Dietrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bifactor model; Facebook; Internet addiction; Latent class analysis; Short form

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 84959520875     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: 15543528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-016-0716-2     Document Type: Article

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