nichols_2004 {discovr}R Documentation

Internet addiction scale (IAS) data

Description

A dataset from Field, A. P. (2026). Discovering statistics using R and RStudio (2nd ed.). London: Sage.

Usage

nichols_2004

Format

A tibble with 207 rows and 38 variables.

Details

The increasing populatrity (and usefulness) of the Internet has led to the serious problem of internet addiction. To research this construct it's helpful to be able to measure it, so Laura Nichols and Richard Nicki developed the Internet Addiction Scale, IAS (Nichols & Nicki, 2004). This 36-item questionnaire contains items such as I have stayed on the Internet longer than I intended to and My grades/work have suffered because of my Internet use to which responses are made on a five-point scale (never, rarely, sometimes, frequently, always). The authors dropped two items because they had low means and variances, and dropped three others because of relatively low correlations with other items. They performed a principal component analysis on the remaining 31 items (N = 207).

Source

www.discovr.rocks/csv/nichols_2004.csv

References


[Package discovr version 0.2.2 Index]