Table 5.
Item analysis of the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale in the sample (N = 123)
| Items | Mean | SD | Scale mean if item deleted | Scale variance if item deleted | Item-total correlation | Cronbach'sαif Item deleted | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spent a lot of time thinking about Facebook or planned use of Facebook | 2.0 | 1.1 | 11.55 | 41.17 | .85 | .96 |
| 2 | Felt an urge to use Facebook more and more | 2.4 | 1.4 | 11.31 | 37.00 | .92 | .95 |
| 3 | Used Facebook in order to forget about personal problems | 2.8 | 1.3 | 11.33 | 36.36 | .93 | .95 |
| 4 | Tried to cut down on the use of Facebook without success | 2.2 | 1.4 | 11.40 | 36.96 | .87 | .96 |
| 5 | Become restless or troubled if you have been prohibited from using Facebook | 2.1 | 1.4 | 11.09 | 36.74 | .92 | .95 |
| 6 | Used Facebook so much that it has a negative impact on your job/studies | 2.1 | 1.4 | 10.72 | 38.07 | .85 | .96 |
Values in boldface show that items with correlated error terms express higher item-total correlations, denoting their relevance to the latent structure