TY  - JOUR 
AU  - Fernández-Villa, Tania
AU  - Molina de la Torre, Antonio José
AU  - García-Martín, Miguel
AU  - Llorca, Javier
AU  - Delgado Rodríguez, Miguel
AU  - Martín Sánchez, Vicente
PY  - 2015
SN  - 1471-2458
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10481/38533
AB  - [Background]

The wide use of the Internet in the workplace, academic or social field, can have an impact on daily life. One of the most used questionnaires worldwide to analyse these problems is the Internet Addiction Test (IAT). Our aim was to...
AB  - [Methods]

Population of study were college students participating in the uniHcos project (Universities of Granada, Huelva, Jaén, León, Salamanca, and Vigo). The questionnaire was translated and back-translated by two native English speakers....
AB  - [Results]

The reliability of scores was good (r = 0.899, Kappa = 0.650 and mean difference using Bland-Altman = −3.5). The psychometric assessment identified two factors (Emotional Investment; Performance and Time Management) which explained 55 %...
AB  - [Discussion]

The results show good reliability and psychometric properties of the Spanish version of IAT with a two-dimensional solution. This result is partially in concordance with previous validations of the IAT in other languages that have...
AB  - [Conclusion]

The reliability and psychometric properties obtained in this study support the conclusion that this Spanish short version of the IAT represents a useful tool for the analysis of problems arising from misuse of the Internet.
LA  - eng
PB  - Biomed Central
KW  - Internet addiction
KW  - Internet addiction test
KW  - Factorial validity
KW  - College students
KW  - Spain
TI  - Validation and psychometric analysis of the Internet Addiction Test in Spanish among college students
DO  - 10.1186/s12889-015-2281-5
ER  -