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Please answer each of the following questions about Online Video Games (OVG) andor Social Networking Sites (SNS) as Internet entertainments used in the past year.

1. When I am not in class, I usually think about OVG andor SNS (the last time I played or enjoyed my scores or friends, my previous sessions, etc.)
2. When I playenjoy myself online I spend more time than I had planned
3. When I finish playing, I look forward to my next session of entertainment with OVG andor SNS
4. When I begin accustomed to playing a game or to an entertainment website, I need more time to derive enjoyment than I did at first
5. When I play OVG or visit SNS, I can forget my homework
6. When I play OVG or visit SNS, I can forget my household chores (making my bed, washing dishes, walking the dog, etc.)
7. When I play OVG or visit SNS, I can forget everything
8. When I play OVG or visit SNS I become very tense, even a little agitated, trying to answer quickly and correctly
9. When I play OVG or visit SNS, other people (parents, brothers, sisters, friends, etc.) complain about the length of time I spend
10. I get annoyed when people ask me what I'm doing while I'm playing OVG or visiting SNS
11. I have tried not to spend so much time with OVG or SNS, but I find it difficult
12. I am unable to leave a session half-finished, I have to finish somehow
13. When I stop playing it's because I just can't go on and have been playing for one or more hours
14. When, for any reason, I have to stop playing before I want to, I get irritable, nervous, in a bad mood, tired...is short, I feel bad
15. OVG or SNS help me forget my daily problems for a while and just enjoy myself
16. A world without OVG or SNS would not be fun
17. I have met new people through this kind of entertainment (OVG or SNS)
18. Through this kind of entertainment (OVG or SNS) I have made new friends
19. I have occasionally got hooked on this kind of entertainment (OVG or SNS): when the video game is new, during the holidays, when I meet something or someone new through SNS, etc.
20. I have lost my appetite or missed a meal on account of OVG or SNS
21. I have lost sleep due to the time I spend playing OVG or visiting SNS
22. I have told lies about the time I spend on OVG or visiting SNS
23. I have hidden things that I found out through OVG or SNS
24. I have spent money on OVG or SNS entertainment
25. I have sometimes preferred OVG or SNS to being with my friends
26. I have tried everything possible to get more time to play or obtain new video games, friends...
27. When I am playing OVG or visiting SNS it is usual for me to ask my parentsbrother(s)sister(s) to let me play a little longer
28. I get completely absorbed when I am playing online
29. I like to keep up-to-date with anything new in OVG or SNS
30. My main entertainment is OVG or SNS

Response Options:
7-point Likert scale
I strongly disagree - 1
I strongly agree - 7