The Psychometric Properties of the Internet Addiction Test

By Laura Widyanto, Mary McMurran. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2004

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Depression among Users of Social Networking Sites (SNSs): The Role of SNS Addiction and Increased Usage (2017, positive): “Cronbach’s Alpha internal reliability coefficients provided information that the test had internal reliability, and the IAT has also been found to have high construct validity in previous research [40, 41].”
The Relationship Between Online Game Addiction and Aggression, Self-Control and Narcissistic Personality Traits (2008, background): “Fifth, in online response-based studies such as this there exists an issue of the validity and reliability of the online data [34,35].”
Excessive internet use: the role of personality, loneliness and social support networks in internet addiction (2007, background): “…(Wolfradt & Doll 2001), emotional states such as loneliness and anxiety (Caplan 2003; Moody 2001; Shepherd & Edelmann 2005; Yao-Guo et al. 2006), inadequate social support networks (Cummings et al. 2002; Kraut et al. 2002) and specific types of internet activities (Widyanto & McMurran 2004).”
Watch, Share or Create: The Influence of Personality Traits and User Motivation on TikTok Mobile Video Usage (2020, background): “Most studies conceptualize media use as the degree of media exposure [35] or habitual use of media in everyday life [36].”
Quality of Interpersonal Relationships and Problematic Internet Use in Adolescence (2009, neutral): “Internet Addiction Test (IAT; Italian version).(2,20) The cutoff score for PIU is 50 and for effective dependence is 80.”
A Meta-analysis of the Reliabilty of Young's Internet Addiction Test (2012, background): “• Young [7] suggests that a score of 20-39 points is an average online user who has complete control over his/her usage, A score of 40-69 signifies frequent problems due to Internet usage, and a score of 70-100 means that the Internet is causing significant problems Widyanto and Mcmurran [9] perform”
Problematic mobile phone use in adolescence: a cross-sectional study (2011, background): “Widyanto and McMurran (2004) supported the reliability and validity of this test.”
Internet Addiction or Excessive Internet Use (2010, methodology): “The most commonly used questionnaire is Young’s Internet Addiction Scale (IAT) (cut off point score 70 and above), which has been validated in the United Kingdom (8), the United States (9), Finland (10), and Korea (11).”
The Effects of Boredom, Loneliness, and Distress Tolerance on Problem Internet Use Among University Students (2016, methodology): “Several scales have been designed and psychometrically tested such as the Internet Addiction Test (IAT; Young 1998), the Internet Related Problem Scale (IRPS; Widyanto et al. 2008) and the PIUQ (Demetrovics et al. 2008).”