Assessing the psychometric properties of the Internet Addiction Test: A study on a sample of Italian university students

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Highlights:

• The new Italian validation of the Internet Addiction Test is presented.

• Robust Maximum Likelihood confirmatory methods is used for the validation.

• The final scale exhibited a good internal, convergent and divergent reliability.

• The results confirm the two-factor solution of the Internet Addiction Test.

• The items 4 and 7 were dropped, resulting in an 18-item questionnaire.

摘要

•The new Italian validation of the Internet Addiction Test is presented.•Robust Maximum Likelihood confirmatory methods is used for the validation.•The final scale exhibited a good internal, convergent and divergent reliability.•The results confirm the two-factor solution of the Internet Addiction Test.•The items 4 and 7 were dropped, resulting in an 18-item questionnaire.

论文关键词:Internet Addiction Test,Internet addiction disorder,Psychometric assessing,Robust Maximum Likelihood,University students

论文评审过程:Received 16 February 2016, Revised 1 November 2016, Accepted 12 November 2016, Available online 18 November 2016, Version of Record 18 November 2016.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.11.019