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The Dimensions of Facebook Addiction as Measured by Facebook Addiction Italian Questionnaire and Their Relationships
Barbara Caci1, Maurizio Cardaci1, Fabrizio Scrima2
11 Dipartimento di Scienze Psicologiche, Pedagogiche e della Formazione, Università degli Studi di Palermo , Palermo, Italy .
Abstract:
The studies reported analyze the factorial structure of Facebook Addiction Italian Questionnaire (FAIQ), a variant of 20-item Young's Internet Addiction Test (IAT). In Study 1, we tested FAIQ psychometric properties using exploratory factor analysis (EFA). In Study 2, we performed a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to verify the FAIQ factorial structure identified through EFA. Results from CFA confirm the presence of a four-factor model accounting for 58 percent of total variance, plus a general higher order factor that best fits the data. Further relationships between FAIQ factor scores, personality, and Facebook usage have been explored.