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Table 5 Item analysis of the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale in the sample (N = 123)

From: The Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale: its psychometric properties and invariance among women with eating disorders

 

Items

Mean

SD

Scale mean if item deleted

Scale variance if item deleted

Item-total correlation

Cronbach'sαif Item deleted

1

Spent a lot of time thinking about Facebook or planned use of Facebook

2.0

1.1

11.55

41.17

.85

.96

2

Felt an urge to use Facebook more and more

2.4

1.4

11.31

37.00

.92

.95

3

Used Facebook in order to forget about personal problems

2.8

1.3

11.33

36.36

.93

.95

4

Tried to cut down on the use of Facebook without success

2.2

1.4

11.40

36.96

.87

.96

5

Become restless or troubled if you have been prohibited from using Facebook

2.1

1.4

11.09

36.74

.92

.95

6

Used Facebook so much that it has a negative impact on your job/studies

2.1

1.4

10.72

38.07

.85

.96

  1. Values in boldface show that items with correlated error terms express higher item-total correlations, denoting their relevance to the latent structure