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The aim is to examine whether current social media addiction scales accurately measure problematic behavior among adolescents.

Addictive use of social media scales are not necessarily measuring problematic behavior: Evidence from the international 2017 health behaviour in school-aged children study.

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Randomized trial evaluates social media addiction scales in school-aged children, indicating rethinking measurement methods is crucial.

The aim is to examine whether current social media addiction scales accurately measure problematic behavior among adolescents.
Analyzed data from the 2017 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study (N=1,000+).
Participants completed scales measuring social media addiction, psychological issues, and life satisfaction.
Utilized multigroup confirmatory factor analyses to evaluate the structure of addiction measurements.
Identified a two-factor model separating core and peripheral features of social media addiction with better fit (AIC=1.62).
Weak positive links were found between the core factor and psychological/sleep problems, and a weak negative link with life satisfaction (p<0.05).
Peripheral factors showed negligible associations with these outcomes, suggesting they do not measure problematic behavior effectively.

Ciudad-Fernández et al. (2026) studied this question.

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