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The present study involves the construct and validation of the Core Beliefs about Behavioral Addictions and Internet Addiction Questionnaire (CBBAIAQ), on a French non-specific population. Development of the questionnaire was divided into three steps: creation of items based on semi-structured interviews, conduction of an Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) to elaborate the structure of the questionnaire on a first sample of 458 participants, and assessment of internal structure by performing a Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) on a second sample of 544 participants. Data was collected through online surveys. Both samples were evaluated for problematic Internet use (PIU) (IAT; Young, 1998) and problematic Facebook use (PFU) (BFAS; Andreassen, Torsheim, Brunborg, & Pallesen, 2012) for testing correlations with CBBAIAQ factors. EFA, performed on the 91 created items, identified a 3-factor solution composed of 41 items. CFA, performed on the 41 remaining items, revealed a more significant 6-factor model of 23 items. Factor 2, 4, and 6 were significantly negatively correlated with PIU (r = −0.09, r = −0.11, r = −0.09). Psychometric properties of the CBBAIAQ (X2 = 406; p |
