TY  - JOUR
TI  - Cyberchondria Scale (CS): Development, Validity and Reliability Study
AB  - Objective: The aim of the current study is to develop culture specific, multidimensional and self-reportCyberchondria Scale (CS) which can be used to evaluate one’s emotional, cognitive and behavioraltendency to cyberchondria and to determine the psychometric properties of this scale.Method: The study was conducted with two different samples consisted of Internet users. To investigatethe factor structure, the first sample was composed of 250 (49.6% women, 50.4% men) individuals agedbetween 18 and 65. The second sample in which confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conductedconsisted of 360 (61.1% women, 38.3% men) individuals aged between 18 and 65. In addition to CS,Internet Addiction Scale (IAS), Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) and Health Anxiety Inventory (HAI) wereused in this study.Results: The exploratory and CFA revealed a five-factor structure called “Factors Increasing Anxiety”,“Compulsion/Hypochondria”, “Factors Decreasing Anxiety”, “Doctor-Patient Interaction”, “DysfunctionalInternet Use”. The model obtained by CFA represented acceptable goodness of fit values and otherreliability and validity values were found to be satisfactory.Conclusion: CS could be evaluated as a valid and reliable scale which would be used in clinical and healthpsychology studies conducted in Turkey.
AU  - Kömürcü Akik, Burcu
AU  - Durak Batıgün, Ayşegül
AU  - GOR, Nagme
AU  - SENKAL ERTURK, Ipek
DO  - 10.5350/DAJPN2018310203
PY  - 2018
JO  - Düşünen Adam - Psikiyatri ve Nörolojik Bilimler Dergisi
VL  - 31
IS  - 2
SN  - 1018-8681
SP  - 148
EP  - 162
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/288363
ER  -