Passive and Active Use Measure for Facebook (PAUM)

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These scales are copyrighted by Jennifer Gerson and her co-authors. The Passive Active Use Measure (PAUM) may be used as long as the scale is properly cited. See citation below. Permission is not needed to employ the scales and requests to use the scales are not necessary since permission is granted here.

 

Download the PAUM here.

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Items should be presented to respondents in randomised order.

 

Scoring information:

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Items are summed as follows.

Active social: Items 1, 2, 3, 6, 12.

Active non-social: Items 5, 7, 9, 10.

Passive: Items 4, 8, 11, 13.

 

 

Please cite as:

Gerson, J., Plagnol, A. C., & Corr, P. J. (2017). Passive and Active Facebook Use Measure (PAUM): Validation and relationship to the Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory. Personality and Individual Differences, 117. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.05.034