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Existing tools fail to capture the distinct dimensions of victimization in social media contexts.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Objective<\/jats:title>\n This study aimed to adapt and validate a Social Media Cyberbullying Victimization Scale (SMCVS) and examine its associations with psychological outcomes among Chinese college students.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Methods<\/jats:title>\n In Shanghai, China, 1766 students from multiple universities completed questionnaires including demographic information, the SMCVS, the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 scale. The psychometric evaluation of the SMCVS included content validity, construct validity, criterion validity, internal consistency reliability, split-half reliability, and test-retest reliability. Receiver operating characteristic analyses were used to evaluate predictive ability for depression and anxiety.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results<\/jats:title>\n \n Content validity was satisfactory, and 13 items were retained, with item-level content validity index values ranging from 0.833 to 1 and a scale-level content validity index of 0.949. Exploratory factor analysis identified 2 dimensions\u2014\u201cinformation harassment\u201d and \u201creputation and privacy violation\u201d\u2014explaining 82.2% of the total variance. Confirmatory factor analysis supported this structure (goodness-of-fit index=0.943, comparative fit index [CFI]=0.982, normed fit index=0.978, and root mean square error of approximation [RMSEA]=0.075). Multigroup confirmatory factor analysis supported configural and metric invariance across both gender and academic major (\u0394CFI\u22640.01, \u0394RMSEA\u22640.015); scalar invariance was achieved for gender but not for academic major. Both dimensions showed significant correlations with depression (\n r<\/jats:italic>\n =0.433\u20100.457) and anxiety (\n r<\/jats:italic>\n =0.356\u20100.372). Cronbach \u03b1, Spearman-Brown coefficient, and test-retest reliability coefficient were 0.959, 0.973, and 0.860, respectively. The SMCVS demonstrated moderate discriminative accuracy for depression (area under the curve [AUC]=0.738; optimal cutoff=19.5) and anxiety (AUC=0.739; optimal cutoff=22.5).\n <\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n The SMCVS demonstrates sound psychometric properties and may be useful for assessing social media cyberbullying victimization among Chinese college students. 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