Psychometric validation of the Farsi Bergen social media addiction scale (BSMAS) among Iranian adults

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Descriptive indices and factor loadings for the BSMAS items

	Item statistics					Item-total statistics
Item	Component	Mean	Standard Deviation	Factor Loading		V	I.T.	C.D.
Item	Component	Mean	Standard Deviation	ML Estimation	DWLS Estimation	V	I.T.	C.D.
1	Salience	2.38	1.13	0.59	0.62	18.27	0.491	0.777
2	Tolerance	2.58	1.13	0.68	0.71	17.57	0.573	0.759
3	Mood modification	2.65	1.18	0.70	0.68	17.29	0.573	0.758
4	Relapse/loss of control	2.48	1.18	0.68	0.68	17.46	0.547	0.764
5	Withdrawal	2.59	1.28	0.71	0.70	16.65	0.572	0.759
6	Conflict/functional impairment	2.06	1.10	0.68	0.68	18.02	0.537	0.767

Legend: Maximum likelihood = ML, Diagonally Weighted Least Squares = DWLS, scale variance if item deleted = V, Cronbach’s alpha if item deleted = C.D., corrected item-total correlations = I.T

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