Study goals
To adapt and psychometrically validate the social media fatigue scale for the Brazilian context, developing a reliable instrument to measure this emerging behavioral phenomenon in the digital era.
Relevance / originality
There is a gap of validated psychometric instruments in Brazil to measure social media fatigue. This study fills this gap by offering a scientific tool for researchers to investigate contemporary digital behaviors and their psychological consequences in the national context.
Methodology / approach
Employs procedures of Pasquali, Hair, and Cassep-Borges: translation-back-translation by bilinguals, face validation by expert judges, semantic validation with target population, pre-testing, confirmatory factor analysis for convergent, discriminant, and nomological validities, structural equation modeling to test hypothesized relationships.
Main results
Expected to obtain a social media fatigue scale adapted and validated for Brazilian respondents, confirming relationships between antecedents (social, informational, and functional overloads) and fatigue, plus the moderating effect of consumer innovativeness, providing reliable instrument for future research.
Theoretical / methodological contributions
Offers validated psychometric instrument for Brazilian context, contributing methodologically with cross-cultural scale adaptation procedures. Theoretically, advances knowledge about digital fatigue, testing integrated model of antecedents and consequences, expanding literature on consumer behavior in digital environments in Brazil.
Social / management contributions
Provides tool for managers and researchers to understand user fatigue in social media in Brazil, enabling development of strategies to reduce digital overload, improve consumer well-being, and create more responsible and sustainable marketing practices in the contemporary digital.