Assessment of Criteria for Specific Internet-use Disorders-Problematic Online Pornography Use (Müller, 2022)

• Populations: Middle and Late adolescents
• Age ranges: 12-18
• Languages: English, German, Chinese, Thai
• Countries: China; Germany; Taiwan; Thailand

Items

Subscales

• Impaired control, 3 Items
• Increased Priority, 3 Items
• Continuation / Escalation, 3 Items
• Funcional Impairment, 1 Item
• Marked Distress, 1 Item

Impaired Control

• In the past 12 months, have you had trouble keeping track of when you started the activity, for how long, how intensely, or in
  what situation you did it, or when you stopped?
• In the past 12 months, have you felt the desire to stop or restrict the activity because you noticed you were using it too much?
• In the past 12 months, have you tried to stop or restrict the activity and failed with it?

Increased Priority

• In the past 12 months, have you given the activity an increasingly higher priority than other activities or interests in your
  daily life?
• In the past 12 months, have you lost interest in other activities you used to enjoy because of the activity?
• In the past 12 months, have you neglected or given up other activities or interests that you used to enjoy because of the activity?

Continuation / Escalation

• In the past 12 months, have you continued or increased the activity even though it has threatened or caused you to lose a
  relationship with someone important to you?
• In the past 12 months, have you continued or increased the activity even though it has caused you problems in
  school/training/work?
• In the past 12 months, have you continued or increased the activity even though it has caused you physical or mental
  complaints/diseases?

Functional Impairment

• Thinking about all areas of your life, has your life been noticeably affected by the activity in the past 12 months?

Marked Distress

• Thinking about all areas of your life, did the activity cause you suffering in the past 12 months?

Responses

Items used two 4 point Likert-type scales, 0 (never  / not at all intense) to 3 (often / intense) depending on item wording.

Scoring

“Higher summed scores reflect more severe risk of addictive behaviors.” (Müller et al., 2022)

Citations

• Müller, S. M., Wegmann, E., Oelker, A., Stark, R., Müller, A., Montag, C., Wölfling, K., Rumpf, H., & Brand, M. (2022). Assessment of criteria for specific internet-use disorders (ACSID-11): Introduction of a new screening instrument capturing ICD-11 criteria for gaming disorder and other potential internet-use disorders. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 11(2), 427-450. https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2022.00013
• Yang, Y., Su, J., Pimsen, A., Chen, J., Potenza, M. N., Pakpour, A. H., Chen, J., Poon, W. C., Nurmala, I., Ruckwongpatr, K., & Lin, C. (2023). Validation of the thai assessment of criteria for specific internet-use disorders (ACSID-11) among young adults. BMC Psychiatry, 23(1), 819-13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-05210-z
• Oelker, A., Rumpf, H., Brand, M., & Müller, S. M. (2024). Validation of the ACSID-11 for consistent screening of specific internet-use disorders based on ICD-11 criteria for gaming disorder: A multitrait-multimethod approach. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 132, 152470-152470. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2024.152470
• Huang, Y., Ruckwongpatr, K., Chen, J., Pakpour, A. H., Siaw, Y., Nadhiroh, S. R., Kukreti, S., Chen, J., Potenza, M. N., Griffiths, M. D., & Lin, C. (2024). Specific internet disorders in university students in taiwan and hong kong: Psychometric properties with invariance testing for the traditional chinese version of the assessment of criteria for specific internet-use disorders (ACSID-11). International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-024-01270-8
• Saffari, M., Chen, C., Chen, I., Ruckwongpatr, K., Griffiths, M. D., Potenza, M. N., Wang, X. L., Huang, Y., Chen, J., Tsai, C., & Lin, C. (2024). A comprehensive measure assessing different types of problematic use of the internet among chinese adolescents: The assessment of criteria for specific internet-use disorders (ACSID-11). Comprehensive Psychiatry, 134, 152517. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2024.152517