Objective: To develop a short video addiction scale with good reliability andvalidity to assess the addiction tendency of college students to short video. Methods: Based on Mobile Phone Addiction Scale developed by Liang Yongzhi, we developed the initial scale of short video addiction, which was measured among the first college students samples(n=442), the data were analyzed with item analysis and exploratory factor analysis to form a formal scale. Then the formal scale was measured among the second college students sample(n=400), and the data were analyzed with confirmatory factor analysis and internal consistency reliability test. Results: The formal scale of short video addiction consisted of 14 items, including 4 dimensions: anxiety and feeling lost, withdrawal and escape, inability to control craving, productivity loss.
Anxiety and feeling lost includes 5 items, withdrawal and escape includes 3 items, inability to control craving includes 4items, and productivity loss includes 2 items. The internal consistency reliability coefficient of the total scale was 0.91, and the internal consistency reliability coefficients of each sub-dimension were 0.76~0.89, and the four-factor model indicated a good structure fitness. Therefore, the short video addiction scale developed in this study has good internal consistency reliability and structure validity. This scale can be used to evaluate the individual differences of short video addiction tendency, and it has a preliminary diagnostic function.