Investigating the Factor Structure and Validation of the Internet Gratification Scale for students

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Document Type : Original Article

Authors
mahdi arkhodi ghalenoei 1
hossein kareshki 2
farhad tanhaye reshvanloo 2
hadi samadieh 2
1 department of education and psychology, ferdowsi university of mashhad
2 Department of Educational psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
10.22034/jcsc.2021.85764.1595
Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to validate the Internet Gratification Scale (IGS) for students including subscales namely, information seeking, exposure, connection, coordination, intertainment, and social influence. The communityof this research was all students of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and the sample of the study were 261 and 311 in two study that were selected by random sampling and responded to the Internet Gratification Scale. Data were analyzed using SPSS.16 and Amos.20 software. The results showed that the scale has a five-factor structure that explains 65.56% of the variance. Confirmatory factor analysis also confirmed this structure. The internal consistency of the scale was confirmed with Cronbach's alpha of 0.90 and a doubling of 0.74. As a result, IGS seems to have a good validity and reliability in the student sample of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and can be used as a suitable scale for examining the Internet gratifications in students.
Keywords
Internet Gratification
Factor Structure
Validation
Cultural Studies & Communication

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Available Online from 19 May 2021

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