Development of a Facebook Addiction Scale

By Cecilie Schou Andreassen, Torbjørn Torsheim, Geir Scott Brunborg, Ståle Pallesen. Psychological Reports, 2012

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Subfields: Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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Social networking addiction: an overview of preliminary findings (2014, methodology): “However, the BFAS is arguably the most psychometrically robust scale, and it is based on the components model of addiction (Brown, 1993; Griffiths, 2005) that has been used to develop many other psychometrically valid scales to assess other behavioral addictions (e.g., online gaming addiction, exerc”
Too Much Information (2015, neutral): “The BFAS developed by Andreassen et al. (2012) contained 18 items, made up of three groups reflecting each of the six factors of addiction (salience, mood modification, tolerance, withdrawal, conflict, and relapse) on a 5-point scale with 1 = very rarely to 5 = very often.”
Time Spent on Social Network Sites and Psychological Well-Being: A Meta-Analysis (2017, neutral): “Facebook addiction measures the symptoms of addiction, such as salience, mood modification, tolerance, withdrawal, conflict, and relapse, as usually measured by the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale.(25) These symptoms are not good indicators of use of SNS.”
Is Facebook creating "iDisorders"? The link between clinical symptoms of psychiatric disorders and technology use, attitudes and anxiety (2013, background): “Facebook addiction, based on criteria for other addictions, is related to sleep disturbances (Andreassen, Torsheim, Brunborg, & Pallesen, 2012) as is excessive mobile phone use (Thomee et al., 2011).”
Heavy social networking and online compulsive buying: the mediating role of financial social comparison and materialism (2021, background): “This is partly due to the fact that most young adults devote significant amounts of time daily updating and/or communicating through their online social networking accounts (Andreassen et al., 2012; M. D. Griffiths, 2013; Wang et al., 2015).”
Psychological Well-Being and Internet Addiction among University Students. (2013, background): “…social sharing sites like Facebook, Twitter, online games and online gambling causes an increase in the number of internet addiction cases and it is stated that internet addiction will become a serious problem in the near future (Andreassen et al., 2012; Herrera et al., 2010; Teke, 2011).”
Fear of missing out (FOMO): overview, theoretical underpinnings, and literature review on relations with severity of negative affectivity and problematic technology use (2020, background): “[1] e a Escala Bergen de Adição ao Facebook de seis itens [70].”
Mother, baby and Facebook makes three: does social media provide social support for new mothers? (2018, methodology): “Despite a scale being developed by Andreassen et al. (2012), called the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale, other scholars have pointed to the positive uses of social media usage (Przybylski and Weinstein, 2017).”