Reliability, Validity and Measurement Invariance of the Chinese College Students’ Internet Trolling Scale

Objective: To revise the Chinese version of the Internet Spray Behavior Scale and test its reliability, validity, and measurement equivalence. Method: A total of 1200 college students were tested using the General Behavior Inventory Revised (GAIT-R) for online trolling. The simple sadomasochistic impulsivity scale, cyberbullying scale, and cyberaggressive behavior scale were used as benchmarks, and 315 college students were retested after a 4-week interval. Result: The revised scale not only has a good single factor structure, but also has measurement equivalence across gender, age, grade, and major. Conclusion: The revised GAIT-R can serve as a scientific tool for measuring the online trolling behavior of Chinese university students. In addition, a common method bias test was conducted on the sample data using the single factor CFA method and controlling for unmeasured latent method factors.

研究目的：修订网络喷子行为量表（Internet Spray Behavior Scale）中文版，并检验其信度、效度与测量等价性。
研究方法：共招募1200名大学生作为被试，采用用于测量网络挑衅行为的修订版一般性行为量表（General Behavior Inventory Revised，GAIT-R）开展测评；以简易性施虐受虐冲动量表、网络欺凌量表及网络攻击行为量表作为效标工具，并于4周后对其中315名大学生进行重测。
研究结果：修订后的量表不仅具备良好的单因素结构，且在性别、年龄、年级及专业维度上均具有测量等价性。
研究结论：修订版GAIT-R可作为测量中国大学生网络挑衅行为的科学测评工具。此外，本研究采用单因素验证性因子分析（Confirmatory Factor Analysis，CFA）方法，通过控制未测潜变量方法效应，对样本数据进行了共同方法偏差检验。