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Evaluating Use and Attitudes Towards Social Media and ICT for Portuguese youth: the MTUAS-PY scale

Table 3: Factor number and name, number of items, % of variance explained, items in MTUAS-PY and in MTUAS original factors (Rosen, et al., 2013a)

Factorial structure of MTUAS-PY (Portuguese version) Items Original factors (Rosen, et al., 2013a)
F1: Facebook usage (11 items, 30%) 1 - 9 General social media usage
10, 11 Social media friendships
F2: E-mailing (5 items, 10%) 12-15 E-mailing
16 Smartphone usage
F3: Media sharing and internet searching (6 items, 8%) 17-19, 21 Media sharing
20, 22 Internet searching
F4: Smartphone usage (5 items, 5%) 23, 26 Text messaging
24, 25, 27 Smartphone usage
F5: Picture and video recording (2 items, 4%) 28 - 29 Smartphone usage
F6: Video gaming (3 items, 4%) 30 - 32 Video gaming
F7: Information searching (3 items, 3%) 33 - 35 Smartphone usage
F8: Television viewing (2 items, 3%) 36 - 37 Television viewing
F9: Media searching (2 items, 3%) 38 - 39 Internet searching
F10: Online friendship (2 items, 3%) 40 - 41 Online friendships
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