French Validation of the Internet Addiction Test

By Yasser Khazaal, Joël Billieux, Gabriel Thorens, R. Khan, Youssr Louati, Elisa Scarlatti, F. Theintz, Jerome Lederrey, Martial van der Linden, Daniele Zullino. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2008

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Internet Addiction Prevalence and Quality of (Real) Life: A Meta-Analysis of 31 Nations Across Seven World Regions (2014, positive): “Both measures have been translated into multiple languages, 31,32 and thus are ideal instruments for making multinational comparisons in this study.”
Why do you play World of Warcraft? An in-depth exploration of self-reported motivations to play online and in-game behaviours in the virtual world of Azeroth (2013, methodology): “To this end, the original instruction of the French IAT (Khazaal et al., 2008) was adapted so that the items refer only to time spent playing WoW (and not to time spent on the Internet in general as in the original version of the scale).”
Internet Addiction and its Psychosocial Risks (Depression, Anxiety, Stress and Loneliness) among Iranian Adolescents and Young Adults: A Structural Equation Model in a Cross-Sectional Study (2016, methodology): “This inventory has been also used by other investigators of IA and has shown good but varied psychometric properties in relation to factor structure (Khazaal et al. 2008; Widyanto and McMurran 2004).”
Problematic Use of the Internet and Self-Regulation: A Review of the Initial Studies (2012, methodology): “The original IAT has been shown to have adequate psychometric properties [18] and has since been translated and validated in several other languages [19-21].”