TY - JOUR
T1 - Cross-Cultural Validation of the Compulsive Internet Use Scale in Four Forms and Eight Languages
AU - Lopez-Fernandez, Olatz
AU - Griffiths, Mark D.
AU - Kuss, Daria J.
AU - Dawes, Christopher
AU - Pontes, Halley M.
AU - Justice, Lucy
AU - Rumpf, Hans Jürgen
AU - Bischof, Anja
AU - Gässler, Ann Kathrin
AU - Suryani, Eva
AU - Männikkö, Niko
AU - Kääriänen, Maria
AU - Romo, Lucia
AU - Morvan, Yannick
AU - Kern, Laurence
AU - Graziani, Pierluigi
AU - Rousseau, Amélie
AU - Hormes, Julia M.
AU - Schimmenti, Adriano
AU - Passanisi, Alessia
AU - Demetrovics, Zsolt
AU - Király, Orsolya
AU - Lelonek-Kuleta, Bernadeta
AU - Chwaszcz, Joanna
AU - Dufour, Magali
AU - Ponce Terashima, Javier
AU - Chóliz, Mariano
AU - Zacarés, Juan José
AU - Serra, Emilia
AU - Rochat, Lucien
AU - Zullino, Daniele
AU - Achab, Sophia
AU - Landrø, Nils Inge
AU - Billieux, Joël
PY - 2019/7/1
Y1 - 2019/7/1
N2 - The 14-item Compulsive Internet Use Scale (CIUS) is one of the most frequently internationally adapted psychometric instruments developed to assess generalized problematic Internet use. Multiple adaptations of this instrument have led to versions in different languages (e.g., Arabic and French), and different numbers of items (e.g., from 5 to 16 items instead of the original 14). However, to date, the CIUS has never been simultaneously compared and validated in several languages and different versions. Consequently, the present study tested the psychometric properties of four CIUS versions (i.e., CIUS-14, CIUS-9, CIUS-7, and CIUS-5) across eight languages (i.e., German, French, English, Finnish, Spanish, Italian, Polish, and Hungarian) to (a) examine their psychometric properties, and (b) test their measurement invariance. These analyses also identified the optimal versions of the CIUS. The data were collected via online surveys administered to 4,226 voluntary participants from 15 countries, aged at least 18 years, and recruited from academic environments. All brief versions of the CIUS in all eight languages were validated. Dimensional, configural, and metric invariance were established across all languages for the CIUS-5, CIUS-7, and CIUS-9, but the CIUS-5 and CIUS-7 were slightly more suitable because their model fitted the ordinal estimate better, while for cross-comparisons, the CIUS-9 was slightly better. The brief versions of the CIUS are therefore reliable and structurally stable instruments that can be used for cross-cultural research across adult populations.
AB - The 14-item Compulsive Internet Use Scale (CIUS) is one of the most frequently internationally adapted psychometric instruments developed to assess generalized problematic Internet use. Multiple adaptations of this instrument have led to versions in different languages (e.g., Arabic and French), and different numbers of items (e.g., from 5 to 16 items instead of the original 14). However, to date, the CIUS has never been simultaneously compared and validated in several languages and different versions. Consequently, the present study tested the psychometric properties of four CIUS versions (i.e., CIUS-14, CIUS-9, CIUS-7, and CIUS-5) across eight languages (i.e., German, French, English, Finnish, Spanish, Italian, Polish, and Hungarian) to (a) examine their psychometric properties, and (b) test their measurement invariance. These analyses also identified the optimal versions of the CIUS. The data were collected via online surveys administered to 4,226 voluntary participants from 15 countries, aged at least 18 years, and recruited from academic environments. All brief versions of the CIUS in all eight languages were validated. Dimensional, configural, and metric invariance were established across all languages for the CIUS-5, CIUS-7, and CIUS-9, but the CIUS-5 and CIUS-7 were slightly more suitable because their model fitted the ordinal estimate better, while for cross-comparisons, the CIUS-9 was slightly better. The brief versions of the CIUS are therefore reliable and structurally stable instruments that can be used for cross-cultural research across adult populations.
KW - Compulsive Internet Use Scale
KW - cross-cultural research
KW - measurement invariance
KW - psychometric testing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85068826702&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1089/cyber.2018.0731
DO - 10.1089/cyber.2018.0731
M3 - Article
C2 - 31295025
AN - SCOPUS:85068826702
VL - 22
SP - 451
EP - 464
JO - CyberPsychology, Behavior and Social Networking
JF - CyberPsychology, Behavior and Social Networking
SN - 2152-2715
IS - 7
ER -