___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ *Social Media Disorder Scale (SMD)* ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Date: 04-02-2021 last updated: 02-28-2022 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Script Copyright © 02-28-2022 Millisecond Software ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND INFO ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This script implements the 9-item Social Media Disorder Scale by Van Den Eijnden et al (2016). Reference: Van Den Eijnden, R.J.J.M., Lemmens, J.S., & Valkenburg, P.M. (2016). The Social Media Disorder Scale, Computers in Human Behavior, 61, 478-487. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.03.038. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ OVERVIEW ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The scale consists of 9 items, one for each of the following 9 problem areas: Preoccupation: … regularly found that you can't think of anything else but the moment that you will be able to use social media again? Tolerance: … regularly felt dissatisfied because you wanted to spend more time on social media? Withdrawal: … often felt bad when you could not use social media? Persistence: … tried to spend less time on social media, but failed? Displacement: … regularly neglected other activities (e.g. hobbies, sport) because you wanted to use social media? Problem: … regularly had arguments with others because of your social media use? Deception: … regularly lied to your parents or friends about the amount of time you spend on social media? Escape: … often used social media to escape from negative feelings? Conflict: … had serious conflict with your parents, brother(s) or sister(s) because of your social media use? (Note: these are the 9 areas assessed to diagnose 'Internet Gaming Disorder' according to the DSM-V. Van Den Eijnden et al (2016) argue that the same problem areas should be assessed for the related Social Media Disorder as they can both be considered forms of 'Internet addictions'.) Each question is answered on a yes/no scale. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DURATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ the default set-up of the script takes < 1 min to complete. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DATA FILE INFORMATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The default data stored in the data files are: (1) Raw data file: 'smd.iqdat' date, time: date and time script was run with the current group/subjectnumber subject, group, session: with the current subject/groupnumber/session id build: the Inquisit build q*_response: response given (in assigned values) Scale: yes (1) - no (0) q*_latency: how much time (in ms) the participant spent on the surveypage with this particular question (the last time this particular surveypage was visited) (2) Summary data file: 'smd_summary.iqdat' (Inquisit Lab: one data file per participant) inquisit.version: Inquisit version run computer.platform: the platform the script was run on (win/mac/ios/android) startDate: date script was run startTime: time script was started subjectid: assigned subject id number groupid: assigned group id number sessionid: assigned session id number elapsedTime: time it took to run script (in ms); measured from onset to offset of script completed: 0 = script was not completed (prematurely aborted); 1 = script was completed (all conditions run) smd_totalscore: sums up the responses to the 9 items (Range: 0-9) A score of 5 or higher is seen as indicative of fulfilling a formal diagnosis of Social Media Disorder (Van Den Eijnden et al (2016, p.479)) + responses to the individual 9 items ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ EDITABLE CODE ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ check below for (relatively) easily editable parameters, stimuli, instructions etc. Keep in mind that you can use this script as a template and therefore always "mess" with the entire code to further customize your experiment. The parameters you can change are: