TY - JOUR
T1 - Towards a cross-cultural assessment of binge-watching: Psychometric evaluation of the “watching TV series motives” and “binge-watching engagement and symptoms” questionnaires across nine languages
AU - Flayelle, Maèva
AU - Castro-calvo, Jesús
AU - Vögele, Claus
AU - Astur, Robert
AU - Ballester-arnal, Rafael
AU - Challet-bouju, Gaëlle
AU - Brand, Matthias
AU - Cárdenas, Georgina
AU - Devos, Gaëtan
AU - Elkholy, Hussien
AU - Grall-bronnec, Marie
AU - James, Richard J.e.
AU - Jiménez-martínez, Martha
AU - Khazaal, Yasser
AU - Valizadeh-haghi, Saeideh
AU - King, Daniel
AU - Liu, Yueheng
AU - Lochner, Christine
AU - Steins-loeber, Sabine
AU - Long, Jiang
AU - Potenza, Marc N.
AU - Rahmatizadeh, Shahabedin
AU - Schimmenti, Adriano
AU - Stein, Dan J.
AU - Tóth-király, István
AU - Tunney, Richard
AU - Wang, Yingying
AU - Zhai, Zu Wei
AU - Maurage, Pierre
AU - Billieux, Joël
N1 - © 2020, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
PY - 2020/10
Y1 - 2020/10
N2 - In view of the growing interest regarding binge-watching (i.e., watching multiple episodes of television (TV) series in a single sitting) research, two measures were developed and validated to assess binge-watching involvement (“Binge-Watching Engagement and Symptoms Questionnaire”, BWESQ) and related motivations (“Watching TV Series Motives Questionnaire”, WTSMQ). To promote international and cross-cultural binge-watching research, the present article reports on the validation of these questionnaires in nine languages (English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Hungarian, Persian, Arabic, Chinese). Both questionnaires were disseminated, together with additional self-report measures of happiness, psychopathological symptoms, impulsivity and problematic internet use among TV series viewers from a college/university student population (N = 12,616) in 17 countries. Confirmatory factor, measurement invariance and correlational analyses were conducted to establish structural and construct validity. The two questionnaires had good psychometric properties and fit in each language. Equivalence across languages and gender was supported, while construct validity was evidenced by similar patterns of associations with complementary measures of happiness, psychopathological symptoms, impulsivity and problematic internet use. The results support the psychometric validity and utility of the BWESQ and WTSMQ for conducting cross-cultural research on binge-watching.
AB - In view of the growing interest regarding binge-watching (i.e., watching multiple episodes of television (TV) series in a single sitting) research, two measures were developed and validated to assess binge-watching involvement (“Binge-Watching Engagement and Symptoms Questionnaire”, BWESQ) and related motivations (“Watching TV Series Motives Questionnaire”, WTSMQ). To promote international and cross-cultural binge-watching research, the present article reports on the validation of these questionnaires in nine languages (English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Hungarian, Persian, Arabic, Chinese). Both questionnaires were disseminated, together with additional self-report measures of happiness, psychopathological symptoms, impulsivity and problematic internet use among TV series viewers from a college/university student population (N = 12,616) in 17 countries. Confirmatory factor, measurement invariance and correlational analyses were conducted to establish structural and construct validity. The two questionnaires had good psychometric properties and fit in each language. Equivalence across languages and gender was supported, while construct validity was evidenced by similar patterns of associations with complementary measures of happiness, psychopathological symptoms, impulsivity and problematic internet use. The results support the psychometric validity and utility of the BWESQ and WTSMQ for conducting cross-cultural research on binge-watching.
KW - Binge-watching
KW - Confirmatory factor analysis
KW - Cross-cultural
KW - Measurement invariance
KW - Questionnaires
KW - TV series
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UR - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0747563220301631
U2 - 10.1016/j.chb.2020.106410
DO - 10.1016/j.chb.2020.106410
M3 - Article
SN - 0747-5632
VL - 111
JO - Computers in Human Behavior
JF - Computers in Human Behavior
M1 - 106410
ER -