Development of the Preference for Online Social Interaction Scale for Chinese adolescents

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Zhiqi You
Yuan Tian
Fanchang Kong
Zongkui Zhou
Youjie Zheng
Cite this article:  You, Z., Tian, Y., Kong, F., Zhou, Z., & Zheng, Y. (2016). Development of the Preference for Online Social Interaction Scale for Chinese adolescents. Social Behavior and Personality: An international journal, 44(6), 1005-1014.


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Our purpose in this study was to develop a scale to measure preference for online social interaction (POSI). The psychometric properties of the POSI Scale were tested with 2 separate samples of Chinese teenagers (age 13–18 years). The responses of the first group (n = 352) were used to explore the factor structure of the scale. The responses of the second group (n = 593) were used to test construct validity and consistency reliability of the POSI Scale. The results indicated that (a) the POSI Scale consists of three dimensions: online social interaction frequency, online social interaction propensity, and perception of superiority of online social interaction compared to face-to-face social interaction; and (b) the POSI Scale has good structural validity and internal consistency and reliability, and is a reliable and valid instrument for measurement of adolescents’ preference for online social interaction, especially in the context of Chinese teenagers.

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