Research on the association between social anxiety and social media usage remains inconclusive: despite the preference for computer‐mediated communication there is currently no clear empirical support for social anxiety being associated with longer duration of social media use. Self‐report measures for social anxiety that are adapted for the context of social media could facilitate further research. The current study aimed to develop a Swedish version of the recently developed Social Anxiety Scale for Social Media Users (SAS‐SMU), evaluate its psychometric properties, and explore associations between different uses of social media and social anxiety. Three factors were retained for SAS‐SMU with excellent internal consistency. SAS‐SMU evidenced convergent validity with measures of social anxiety, negative convergent validity with satisfaction with life, and divergent validity with measures of obsessive‐compulsive disorder, depression and generalized anxiety disorder. Results indicated that higher levels of social anxiety were associated with passive and active use as well as longer duration of social media use in general, which is at odds with a previous study where passive use remained the only significant predictor for social anxiety.

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使用瑞典社交媒体用户社交焦虑量表测量社交焦虑与不同类型社交媒体使用之间的关联：心理评估和横断面研究。

关于社交焦虑与社交媒体使用之间的关联性的研究仍没有定论：尽管偏爱计算机介导的交流，但目前尚无明确的实证证据支持社交焦虑与更长的社交媒体使用时间相关。针对社交媒体的社交焦虑自我报告方法可以促进进一步的研究。当前的研究旨在开发瑞典版的社交媒体用户社交焦虑量表（SAS-SMU），评估其心理测量特性，并探索社交媒体的不同用途与社交焦虑之间的关联。SAS-SMU保留了三个具有出色内部一致性的因素。SAS‐SMU证明了社交焦虑的收敛效度，对生活满意的负收敛效度，对强迫症，抑郁症和广泛性焦虑症的测度效度差异。结果表明，较高的社交焦虑水平与被动和主动使用以及更长的社交媒体使用时间有关，这与以前的研究不一致，在以前的研究中，被动使用仍然是社交焦虑的唯一重要预测指标。