Table 5.
Comparison of Internet Addiction Test-Social Networking Sites version (IAT-SNS) factor solution with previous factor analyses for the original Internet Addiction Test (IAT)
| IAT-SNS factor solution | Items | IAT factor solutions |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 200412 | 200632 | 200831 | 200833 | 201034 | 201111 | 20129 | 201235 | 201436 | 201537 | 201521 | 201913 | ||
| Factor 1 | Item 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 |
| Item 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| Item 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | |
| Item 6 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Item 7 | 4 | 3 | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | 5 | 2 | 2 | |
| Item 8 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1,2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Item 10 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| Item 11 | 4 | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| Item 14 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |
| Item 15 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | |
| Item 16 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 6 | 1 | |
| Item 17 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | |
| Factor 2 | Item 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Item 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 | |
| Item 12 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | |
| Item 13 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | |
| Item 18 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 | |
| Item 20 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | |
| Factor 3 | Item 3 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Item 19 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | |
IAT-SNS: Internet Addiction Test-Social Networking Sites version
Note: Numbers in table indicate the factors each item belongs to.