Psychometric properties and measurement invariance of the 7-item game addiction scale (GAS) among Chinese college students

Table 4 Correlations between GAS and other constructs

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
1.GAS	1.00	0.67	0.22	0.48	0.38	0.39	0.41	0.44	0.46	0.47	0.46	0.43	0.37
2.IAT		1.00	0.31	0.43	0.45	0.43	0.45	0.43	0.43	0.42	0.43	0.41	0.26
3.PSQI			1.00	0.42	0.48	0.44	0.47	0.45	0.42	0.39	0.42	0.41	0.20
4.Somatization (subscale)				1.00	0.82	0.82	0.86	0.91	0.87	0.90	0.88	0.87	0.61
5.Obsessive-compulsiveness (subscale)					1.00	0.91	0.91	0.88	0.84	0.82	0.85	0.86	0.43
6.interpersonal sensitivity (subscale)						1.00	0.93	0.90	0.88	0.85	0.90	0.90	0.46
7.Depression (subscale)							1.00	0.93	0.88	0.87	0.89	0.91	0.49
8.Anxiety (subscale)								1.00	0.92	0.91	0.92	0.93	0.55
9.Hostility (subscale)									1.00	0.89	0.91	0.89	0.55
10.Phobic anxiety (subscale)										1.00	0.89	0.89	0.59
11.Paranoid ideation (subscale)											1.00	0.92	0.55
12.Psychoticism (subscale)												1.00	0.57
13.Substance use													1.00

Note: GAS Gaming Addiction Scale, IAT Internet Addiction Test, PSQI Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, SCL-90-R Symptom Checklist-90-Revised