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

Table 7: Items loadings for Attitudes factors

Media attitude factors
Items F1 F2 F3 F4
I get anxious when I don’t have the Internet available to me .792
I am dependent on my technology .774
I get anxious when I don’t have my cell phone .758
I feel that I get more accomplished 
because of technology .755
With technology anything is possible .669
Technology will provide solutions to 
many of our problems .612
When doing a number of 
assignments, I like to switch back and forth between them 
rather than do one at a time .848
I prefer to work on several 
projects in a day, rather than completing one project and 
then switching to another .828
I like to finish one task completely before focusing on anything else -.761
When I have a task to complete, I like to break it 
up by switching to other tasks intermittently .311
I feel it is important to be able to access the Internet any time I want .803
I feel it is important to be able to find any information whenever I want online .723
I think it is important to keep up with the latest trends in technology .647
New technology makes people waste 
too much time .825
New technology makes people more 
isolated .810
New technology makes life more 
complicated .686
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