Table 3.

Basic descriptions and reliability of Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale (BSMAS).

Items	Mean	SD	Factor Loading	Krewness	Kurtosis	Item–Total Correlation	Cronbach’s Alpha If Item Deleted
BSMAS 1	2.64	1.03	0.51	−0.03	2.57	0.63	0.86
BSMAS 2	2.51	1.01	0.63	0.04	2.32	0.72	0.83
BSMAS 3	2.54	1.05	0.68	0.13	2.49	0.75	0.83
BSMAS 4	2.53	1.07	0.73	0.07	2.28	0.78	0.82
BSMAS 5	2.32	1.06	0.81	0.19	2.15	0.84	0.81
BSMAS 6	2.14	1.00	0.77	0.42	3.35	0.80	0.82
BSMAS score (range: 6–30)	14.68	4.68		0.12	2.74

(BSMAS 1: spend a lot of time thinking about social media or planning how to use it; BSMAS 2: spend a lot of time thinking about social media or planning how to use it; BSMAS 3: feel an urge to use social media more and more; BSMAS 4: use social media in order to forget about personal problems; BSMAS 5: have tried to cut down on the use of social media without success; BSMAS 6: become restless or troubled if prohibited from using social media).