Examination of the Psychometric Characteristics of the Italian Version of the Game Addiction Scale for Adolescents

Bibliographic Data

ID13670491
AuthorsSebastiano Costa (0000-0002-2392-6039, Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Caserta, Italy, corresponding author), Nadia Barberis (0000-0002-6489-2779, University of Messina), Maria Cristina Gugliandolo (0000-0002-1189-6960, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Università degli Studi di Messina, Messina, Italy; Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Sociali e della Salute, Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Cassino, Italy), Francesca Liga (0000-0001-7074-6711), Francesca Cuzzocrea (0000-0002-3527-2386, University of Messina), Valeria Verrastro (0000-0002-7674-727X, Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Sociali e della Salute, Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Cassino, Italy)
Year2019
Volume123
Issue4
Pages1365-1381
Publication date2019-04-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychological Reports (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0033294119838758
PMID30940015
OpenAlexW2927840905
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited29

In the last years, the interest in Internet Gaming Disorder has grown considerably, which has necessitated the development of valid and reliable tools in different cultural contexts. Although, in the scientific literature, there are several measures that evaluate the Internet Gaming Disorder, the Game Addiction Scale has shown to be a valid questionnaire specifically designed for adolescents and based on the Griffiths' theory of components model of behavioral addiction. For this reason, the aim of this study is to verify the psychometric characteristics of the Italian translation of the full and short form of the Game Addiction Scale in a sample of 452 Italian adolescents (190 males and 262 females), aged between 13 and 17 years (M = 14.75; SD = 1.21). A series of confirmatory factor analyses was used to assess the Game Addiction Scale factorial structure, and the comparison of the models showed that the best fitting model was the Bifactor Model for the full form, while the unidimensional structure showed good fit for the short form of the Game Addiction Scale. Furthermore, both versions showed good reliability and correlations with Internet Addiction and hours of gaming. In sum, the Game Addiction Scale can be considered a relevant instrument for investigating Internet Gaming Disorder in Italian adolescents

Addiction · Behavioral addiction · Confirmatory factor analysis · Internet addiction disorder · Psychiatry · Sample (material · Scale (ratio · Statistics · Structural equation modeling · The Internet · World Wide Web · Child Development and Digital Technology · Clinical Psychology · Computer Science · Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Mathematics · Psychology · Technology Adoption and User Behaviour

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