Validation Study of the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale on a Sample of Bangladeshi People
Received Date: Oct 04, 2018 / Accepted Date: Oct 24, 2018 / Published Date: Oct 31, 2018
Abstract
The present study was designed to validate the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale (BFAS) in Bangladeshi culture in response to the scarcity of instrument for measuring Facebook addiction of Bangladeshi people. The BFAS was translated and back translated by following standard procedures. The translated version of the measure was administered, after pre-test, on a sample of 237 respondents who selected through non-probability sampling techniques. The psychometric properties were assessed by item analysis, exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, Pearson product moment correlation coefficients. Findings revealed that the Bangla BFAS had sufficient item-total correlation, internal consistency reliabilities (Chronbach’s Alpha, Split-half reliabilities), and testretest reliability. These findings suggested that the Bangla BFAS had sufficient level of reliability and validity and this measure could be applicable in Bangladeshi culture for screening out Facebook addiction.
Keywords: Facebook addiction; Reliability; Validity
Citation: Ahmed O, Uddin MK, Hossain MA (2018) Validation Study of the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale a Sample of Bangladeshi People. J Addict Res Ther 9:369. Doi: 10.4172/2155-6105.1000369
Copyright: © 2018 Ahmed O, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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