Create and investigate factor structure, validity and reliability of addiction to hack and chat questionnaire in boys and girls adolescents in Ardabil

Mohsen Pasbani¹ mohammad narimani²

1) Iran university of mohaghegh ardabili Email:
2) Iran university of mohaghegh ardabili

IOI Code : XDFF-FDDHA
Publication : 3rd Natinal Conference on Social Pathology(asibuma.ir)
Abstract :
    Abstract The aim of the current research was to create and investigates factor structure, validity and reliability of addiction to hack and chat questionnaire in adolescents. At first with cooperation of four psychological experts, two questionnaire including 70 items with responses in likert scale was collected and finally after ignoring repeated questions, and agreements of examiners, form each of questionnaire 28 and 20 items were selected. In order to factor analysis, these questionnaires was administrated on 487 of first and second grade of high school students. After factor analysis, 4 factors were exploited from each of these questionnaire by exploration method. In order to examining the validity of these questionnaires factor analysis was used. In order to examining the reliability, the coefficient of internal consistency was used. After final factor analysis, two scales 28 and 20-items that include 4 factors were obtained. Cronbach s Coefficient Alpha for the total scale was total addiction to chat questionnaire was .080 and hack was .82. According to obtained results, addiction to chat and hack questionnaires have contextual similarities with addiction to internet questionnaire. It seems that it is reliable questionnaire to assess addiction to chat and hack. The results also showed that this scale has agreeable validity and reliability.

Keywords : chat hack factor structure validity reliability