Social Media Addiction Scale (BSMAS)
6-item screening for problematic social media use
6 questions about your relationship with social media, about 2 minutes.
Do you spend too much time on social media?
That feeling when you pick up your phone to check one thing, and suddenly 40 minutes have passed. The BSMAS asks 6 direct questions about your social media habits.The questions cover six core signs: salience, tolerance, mood modification, relapse, withdrawal, and conflict.
Each item is rated 1 (very rarely) to 5 (very often). Total score 6-30. Research suggests a cutoff of 19+ indicates problematic use.
The scale was developed by Cecilie Schou Andreassen and colleagues at the University of Bergen. It is widely used in digital well-being research.
Important: This is a screening tool, not a clinical diagnosis.
Result Interpretation
Finish the 6 questions and you get your results straight away — no account needed, nothing to sign up for.
- Your score is calculated from your answers.
- What it means — a plain-language breakdown of where you fall.
- Context where available, compared against population norms.
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