Table 2.
Rotated factor matrix for items of the Internet Addiction Test-Social Networking Sites version (IAT-SNS)
| Items | Questions | Factor |
Loadings |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F1 | F2 | F3 | ||
| Q1 | How often do you find that you stay on SNSs longer than you intended? | 0.718 | ||
| Q2 | How often do you neglect household chores to spend more time on SNSs? | 0.626 | ||
| Q5 | How often do others in your life complain of the amount of time you spend on SNSs? | 0.617 | ||
| Q6 | How often أ½do your grades or university work suffer because of the amount of time you spend on SNSs? | 0.809 | ||
| Q7 | How often do you check your SNSs before something else that you need to do? | 0.729 | ||
| Q8 | How often does your job performance or productivity suffer because of SNSs? | 0.748 | ||
| Q10 | How often do you block out disturbing thoughts about your life with soothing thoughts of SNSs? | 0.484 | 0.435 | |
| Q11 | How often do you find yourself anticipating going on SNSs again? | 0.640 | 0.356 | |
| Q14 | How often do you lose sleep due to late night log-ins on SNSs? | 0.533 | ||
| Q15 | How often do you feel preoccupied with SNSs when offline, or fantasize about being online? | 0.583 | 0.496 | |
| Q16 | How often do you find yourself saying “just a few more minutes” when on SNSs? | 0.656 | ||
| Q17 | How often do you try to cut down the amount of time you spend on SNSs? | 0.693 | ||
| Q4 | How often do you form new relationships with fellow SNS users? | 0.537 | ||
| Q9 | How often do you become defensive or secretive when anyone asks you what you do on SNSs? | 0.406 | 0.620 | |
| Q12 | How often do you fear that life without SNSs would be boring, empty, or joyless? | 0.668 | ||
| Q13 | How often do you snap, yell, or act annoyed if someone bothers you while you are on SNSs? | 0.614 | 0.338 | |
| Q18 | How often do you try to hide how long you have been on SNSs? | 0.323 | 0.425 | |
| Q20 | How often do you feel depressed, moody, or nervous when you are offline, and the feeling goes away when you are back on SNSs? | 0.567 | 0.510 | |
| Q3 | How often do you prefer the excitement of SNSs to intimacy with your partner? | 0.837 | ||
| Q19 | How often do you choose to spend more time on SNSs over going out with others? | 0.796 | ||
| Eigenvalue | 5.72 | 2.98 | 2.18 | |
| Variance explained | 28.58 | 14.90 | 10.92 |
SNSs: Social networking sites; n = 310
Factor loadings < 0.30 were suppressed.
Items corresponding to the parenthesized loadings did not conceptually fit with the corresponding factors.
Extraction method: Principal component analysis, Rotation method: Varimax with Kaiser normalization
Rotation converged in 5 iterations.