Psychometric properties of the Persian Gaming Disorder Test and relationships with psychological distress and insomnia in adolescents

BMC Psychology

Research

Marc N. Potenza¹  Chung-Ying Lin²  Halley M. Pontes³  Amir H. Pakpour⁴ 

[1] Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and the Child Study Center, School of Medicine, Yale University, 06510, New Haven, CT, USA;Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling, 06109, Wethersfield, CT, USA;Connecticut Mental Health Center, 06519, New Haven, CT, USA;Wu Tsai Institute, Yale University, 06510, New Haven, CT, USA;Institute of Allied Health Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, 701, Tainan, Taiwan;Biostatistics Consulting Center, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, National Cheng Kung University, 701, Tainan, Taiwan;School of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK;Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Research Institute for Prevention of Non- Communicable Diseases, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, 3419759811, Qazvin, Iran;Department of Nursing, School of Health and Welfare, Jönköping University, Gjuterigatan 5, 553 18, Jönköping, Sweden;

关键词: Adolescent;    Confirmatory factor analysis;    Gaming disorder;    Measurement invariance;    Psychometrics;    Rasch;    Insomnia;    Psychological distress;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s40359-023-01368-z

 received in 2023-04-13, accepted in 2023-09-30,  发布年份 2023

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundGaming Disorder (GD) was recently included by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a psychiatric condition in the eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) and is a concern worldwide, including in Iran. Thus, based on the ICD-11 criteria, a Persian version of the Gaming Disorder Test (GDT) was developed to facilitate assessment of GD.MethodsThe present study used classical test theory and Rasch analysis to examine the psychometric properties of the Persian GDT. Iranian adolescents (n = 3837; 2171 [56.6%] males; mean [SD] age = 16.02 [1.4] years) completed the GDT and other instruments assessing disordered gaming, psychological distress, and insomnia.ResultsOverall, the psychometric properties of the Persian GDT were satisfactory based on classical test theory (i.e., confirmatory factor analysis corroborated the unidimensional structure of GDT) and Rasch analysis (i.e., fit statistics suggested that all items were embedded in the concept of GD). Moreover, the Persian GDT was found to be sex-invariant, displaying no items with substantial differential item functioning across sexes. Additionally, it was found that GD mediated associations between time spent gaming and measures of psychological distress and insomnia.ConclusionThe Persian GDT is a convenient and short instrument for assessing GD among Iranian adolescents. The mediating roles of GD in the associations between time spent gaming and psychological distress and between time spent gaming and insomnia suggest that targeting features of GD may reduce psychological distress and improve sleep for Iranian adolescents.

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