EUPI-aEscala de Uso Problemático de Internet en adolescentes. Desarrollo y validación psicométrica

  1. Antonio Rial Boubeta 1
  2. Patricia Gómez Salgado 1
  3. Manuel Isorna Folgar 2
  4. Manuel Araujo Gallego 1
  5. Jesús Varela Mallou 1
  1. 1 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
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    Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

    Santiago de Compostela, España

    ROR https://ror.org/030eybx10

  2. 2 Universidade de Vigo
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    Universidade de Vigo

    Vigo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/05rdf8595

Revista:
Adicciones: Revista de socidrogalcohol

ISSN: 0214-4840

Ano de publicación: 2015

Volume: 27

Número: 1

Páxinas: 47-63

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.20882/ADICCIONES.193 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso aberto editor

Outras publicacións en: Adicciones: Revista de socidrogalcohol

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Resumo

Adolescents’ use of the Internet is becoming a matter of great concern for different sectors of society. The psychological and behavioural consequences of problematic Internet use in young people demands quick and effective answers. One of the major challenges in this context is the development of empirically validated tools, which would facilitate early detection and screening for potential risk cases. This is precisely the aim of this paper. Based on a sample of 1,709 secondary-school students from Galicia (a region in northern Spain) aged 11 to 17 (M = 13.74, SD = 1.43), the analysis carried out permitted us to present a brief and simple tool (with just 11 items). It has substantial theoretical support, since both the existing background information and the views of experts from the academic and professional spheres were taken into account in the course of its development. The scale is adapted to the Spanish cultural context and to the language of young people. It has satisfactory psychometric properties in terms of reliability of the scores (α= .82), evidence of its internal structure (tested via a Confirmatory Factorial Analysis), sensitivity (81%), and specificity (82.6%). Moreover, its use enables the gradation of adolescents on a risk or problematic Internet use continuum. In our view, all of this lends it enormous applied potential in both the educational and clinical contexts.

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