Development and Psychometric Evidence of a Brief Instrument to Measure Pornography Addiction in Mexican Adults
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Abstract
Introduction: pornography consumption has been widespread during the last decade. There is a lack of reliable and valid instruments to measure pornography addiction in Mexico.
Objective: therefore, this study aimed to develop and validate the Brief Pornography Addiction Scale (BPAS).
Method: after the development of the scale items, 230 participants, mostly men, completed the BPAS. Validity and reliability were assessed with an Exploratory Factor Analysis (AFE) and Cronbach’s alpha, respectively.
Results: the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin value was .866, and Bartlett’s test of sphericity showed significant results (X2 = 929.37; df = 21; p < .001). A single factor called “Dependence” was produced and showed an acceptable Cronbach’s alpha estimate (α = .90).
Discussion and conclusions: the BPAS is a brief assessment scale composed of 7 items with good psychometric properties to measure pornography dependence in men.
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