title: The Dimensions of Facebook Addiction as Measured by Facebook Addiction Italian Questionnaire and Their Relationships with Individual Differences.
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.
authors.affiliation: 1 Dipartimento di Scienze Psicologiche, Pedagogiche e della Formazione, Università degli Studi di Palermo , Palermo, Italy .
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Caci
authors.affiliation: 1 Dipartimento di Scienze Psicologiche, Pedagogiche e della Formazione, Università degli Studi di Palermo , Palermo, Italy .
authors.forename: Maurizio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cardaci
authors.affiliation: 2 Psychology Department, University of Rouen , Mont-Saint-Aignan, France .
authors.forename: Fabrizio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Scrima
authors.affiliation: 3 Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università degli Studi di Palermo , Palermo, Italy .|4 Istituto Nazionale di Ricerche Demopolis , Palermo, Italy .
authors.forename: Marco Elio
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Tabacchi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D016739:Behavior, Addictive / Q000523:psychology*; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D011594:Psychometrics; D061108:Social Media; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014177:Translations; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Facebook; Internet addiction; social networking