{"id":2638,"date":"2021-08-10T12:16:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T11:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/psytech\/?p=2638"},"modified":"2023-02-16T08:42:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T08:42:46","slug":"bergen-social-media-addiction-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/psytech\/2021\/08\/10\/bergen-social-media-addiction-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-70e184fc-ed0a-4fd0-8d42-98c1db35ace6\">Information:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale (originally designed for Facebook but since generalized for all social media).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-3e121f92-1944-414c-9d3c-d6549a6bf5e2\">Copyright restrictions:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-4410f222-fb3d-4635-be9d-08999c63bb36\">Ensure you cite the author(s). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-3e453d53-31c9-469e-804f-9faf11097770\">Citations<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Andreassen, C. S., Torsheim, T., Brunborg, G. S., &amp; Pallesen, S. (2012). Development of a Facebook addiction scale. Psychological reports, 110(2), 501-517.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The above is not necessarily APA formatted. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-9d991823-0663-47c9-b480-d685d04e7ea4\">Ethical Considerations:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>N\/A<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" id=\"block-4811f1d7-a986-4864-aca2-60ff8ecc71f6\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Scale<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are six statements to consider. For each, answer: (1) very rarely, (2) rarely, (3) sometimes, (4) often, or (5) very often.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>You spend a lot of time thinking about social media or planning how to use it.<\/li><li>You feel an urge to use social media more and more.<\/li><li>You use social media in order to forget about personal problems.<\/li><li>You have tried to cut down on the use of social media without success.<\/li><li>You become restless or troubled if you are prohibited from using social media.<\/li><li>You use social media so much that it has had a negative impact on your job\/studies.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" id=\"block-16f61e0d-4774-467c-80ed-324409081849\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information: Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale (originally designed for Facebook but since generalized for all social media).\u00a0 Copyright restrictions: Ensure you cite the author(s). Citations Andreassen, C. S., Torsheim, T., Brunborg, G. S., &amp; Pallesen, S. (2012). Development of a Facebook addiction scale. Psychological reports, 110(2), 501-517. The above is not necessarily APA formatted. Ethical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-questionnaires","category-questionnaire-battery"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale - Salford PsyTech Home \u2192\u2302<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hub.salford.ac.uk\/psytech\/2021\/08\/10\/bergen-social-media-addiction-scale\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale - Salford PsyTech Home \u2192\u2302\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Information: Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale (originally designed for Facebook but since generalized for all social media).\u00a0 Copyright restrictions: Ensure you cite the author(s). 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