Too many swipes for today: The development of the Problematic Tinder Use Scale (PTUS)

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Tinder is a very popular smartphone-based geolocated dating application. The goal of the present study was creating a short Problematic Tinder Use Scale (PTUS). METHODS: Griffiths’ (2005) six-component model was implemented for covering all components of problematic Tinder use....

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Autores principales: Orosz, Gábor, Tóth-Király, István, Bőthe, Beáta, Melher, Dóra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Akadémiai Kiadó 2016
Materias:
Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5264419/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27415602
http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/2006.5.2016.016
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Sumario:BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Tinder is a very popular smartphone-based geolocated dating application. The goal of the present study was creating a short Problematic Tinder Use Scale (PTUS). METHODS: Griffiths’ (2005) six-component model was implemented for covering all components of problematic Tinder use. Confirmatory factor analyses were carried out on a Tinder user sample (N = 430). RESULTS: Both the 12- and the 6-item versions were tested. The 6-item unidimensional structure has appropriate reliability and factor structure. No salient demography-related differences were found. Users irrespectively to their relationship status have similar scores on PTUS. DISCUSSION: Tinder users deserve the attention of scientific examination considering their large proportion among smartphone users. It is especially true considering the emerging trend of geolocated online dating applications. CONCLUSIONS: Before PTUS, no prior scale has been created to measure problematic Tinder use. The PTUS is a suitable and reliable measure to assess problematic Tinder use.

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