Translation and validation of the Portuguese version of the internet severity and activities addiction questionnaire (ISAAQ-10) towards the identification of problematic social media use: A population study.

Journal: Comprehensive psychiatry

Volume: 139

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Affiliated Institutions:  Center for Rehabilitation Research (CIR), Escola Superior de Saúde, Instituto Politécnico do Porto (ES - P.Porto), - Porto, Portugal; Laboratory of Neuropsychophysiology, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto, - Porto, Portugal. Electronic address: artemisa@ess.ipp.pt. Center for Rehabilitation Research (CIR), Escola Superior de Saúde, Instituto Politécnico do Porto (ES - P.Porto), - Porto, Portugal. Electronic address: @ess.ipp.pt. Center for Rehabilitation Research (CIR), Escola Superior de Saúde, Instituto Politécnico do Porto (ES - P.Porto), - Porto, Portugal; Laboratory of Neuropsychophysiology, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto, - Porto, Portugal; Lusófona University, HEI-Lab: Digital Human-Environment Interaction Labs, Portugal. Electronic address: andreia.geraldo@ulusofona.pt. Clinical Neurosciences and Mental Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, - Porto, Portugal; CINTESIS@RISE, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, - Porto, Portugal. Electronic address: irenec@med.up.pt. Center for Rehabilitation Research (CIR), Escola Superior de Saúde, Instituto Politécnico do Porto (ES - P.Porto), - Porto, Portugal. Electronic address: ajmarques@ess.ipp.pt. Escola Superior de Saúde, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, - Porto, Portugal. Electronic address: isp@ess.ipp.pt. Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton SO BJ, UK; Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton SO RZ, UK. Electronic address: srchamb@gmail.com. SA MRC Unit on Risk and Resilience in Mental Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Electronic address: cl@sun.ac.za. Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton SO BJ, UK; Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton SO RZ, UK. Electronic address: konstantinosioannidis@gmail.com.

Abstract summary 

Problematic usage of the internet (PUI) refers to a pattern of internet use that results in negative consequences in an individual's life. It encompasses a broad spectrum of activities, which require assessment in terms of both severity and diversity, for a comprehensive understanding. This study aimed to translate the Internet Severity and Activities Questionnaire (ISAAQ-10) into Portuguese, to analyze its psychometric properties and to explore the validity of the ISAAQ-10 social networking use activity score towards identifying problematic social media use.A snowball sampling method was used, with participants completing an online survey comprising sociodemographic questions and the Portuguese versions of the ISAAQ-10, Internet Addiction Test-10 (IAT-10), Internet Gaming Disorder Scale-Short-Form (IGDS9-SF), and Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale (BSMAS). The psychometric analysis included internal reliability testing using Cronbach's alphas and test-retest reliability, a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), and convergent validity testing between the ISAAQ-10 and IAT-10. The concurrent validity of the ISAAQ-10 was also examined.A total of 590 young adults (85.1 % female), aged between 18 and 35 years, participated in this study. The ISAAQ-10 presented good internal consistency (α = 0.93), with a test-retest correlation of r = 0.865; 95 % CI: 0.669-0.939. and a unidimensional structure that explained 48.3 % of the total variance. The convergent validity of the ISAAQ-10's total score was established through a high Pearson's correlation (r = 0.574; p ≤ .001) with the IAT-10's total score. Pearson's correlations between the ISAAQ-10 gaming activity score and the IGDS9-SF (r = 0.873; p < .001), and between the ISAAQ-10 social networking use activity score and the BSMAS (r = 0.670; p < .001), respectively, supported the instrument's concurrent validity.This work provides support for the Portuguese translation of the ISAAQ-10, which can be employed to identify the severity of problematic usage of the internet in a population sample. It also provides the first validation of the ISAAQ-10 social networking use activity score, which can be employed to identify problematic social media use within a predominately female university student sample. This study further establishes the ISAAQ-10 as a valid and reliable tool for population studies and, specifically, for the identification of problematic social media use.

Authors & Co-authors:  Dores Artemisa R AR Antunes Cátia C Geraldo Andreia A Carvalho Irene P IP Marques António A Pereira Ilídio I Chamberlain Samuel R SR Lochner Christine C Ioannidis Konstantinos K

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Doi : 10.1016/j.comppsych.2025.152585
SSN : 1532-8384
Study Population
Female
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ISAAQ-10;Internet;Problematic social media use
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United States