AUTHOR=Abedi Zahra , Ashouri Ahmad , Ramezani Farani Abbas , Farahani Hojjatollah TITLE=Psychometric properties of the Persian social media intrusion questionnaire JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=14 YEAR=2023 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1084075 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1084075 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
In recent years, social media use has dramatically increased worldwide, which has raised many concerns concerning the excessive use of social media. In this regard, Facebook Intrusion Questionnaire (FIQ) was developed to assess the level of addiction to Facebook. In this study, we first modified the FIQ items to cover all social media besides Facebook and labeled it the measure as Social Media Intrusion Questionnaire (SMIQ). Then, we examined its factor structure, reliability, and validity with 374 participants (M age = 25.91;