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. 2023 Jun 15:11:102249.
doi: 10.1016/j.mex.2023.102249. eCollection 2023 Dec.

Peer assessment as a method for measuring harmful internet use

W W Koczkodaj  1 , A Kowalczyk  2 , M Mazurek  3 , W Pedrycz  4 , G Redlarski  5 , E Rogalska  6 , D Strzalka  7 , A Szymanska  8 , A Wilinski  9 , O S Xue  1
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Peer assessment as a method for measuring harmful internet use

W W Koczkodaj et al. MethodsX. .

Abstract

Harmful Internet use (HIU) describes unintended use of the Internet. It could be both self-harm and harming others. Our research goal is to develop a more accurate method for measuring HIU by this novel peer assessment. As such, it may become, with our call for more research, a paradigm shift supplementing every rating scale or other type of Internet use assessment. In addition to classic statistical analysis, structural equations have been employed. Results indicate that the true positive rate (TPR) is substantially higher than assessed in other studies.•Peer assessment improvement.•AUC for ROC was computed to establish cut-off points for the used scale.•Results obtained by the Structural Equation model indicate that parental care has a moderate influence on subjects' attempts to fight HIU.

Keywords: Differential evolution; Harmful internet use (HIU); Measurement; PA4HIU measure; Path analysis; Peer assessment; Rating scale; Structural equations model.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Rating scale.
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HIU data summary.
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Cut-off scale point for the female population.
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Cut-off scale point for the male population.
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Cut-off point methods for the female population.
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Cut-off point methods for the male population.
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Path analysis diagram.
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