Psychometric properties of smart-phone addiction scale

Farida Husaini; Nasheed Imtiaz

doi:10.53730/ijhs.v6nS4.11407

Psychometric properties of smart-phone addiction scale

https://doi.org/10.53730/ijhs.v6nS4.11407

Authors

Farida Husaini Research Scholar, Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (U.P.), India
Nasheed Imtiaz Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (U.P.), India

Keywords:

smart-phone addiction, reliability, validity

Abstract

The study was conducted in order to standardise the smart-phone addiction scale on Indian population. The work was conducted on N = 258 undergraduate students to examine the psychometric properties i.e., reliability and validity of the scale for measuring smart-phone addiction among generation Z. Cronbach’s alpha of the scale was computed and was found to be 0.89 and the construct validity was obtained highly satisfying. Exploratory factor analysis was carried out and four (4) factors emerged in the analysis. In summing up, all factors explained 60.594% of the total variance which confirms the good construct validity. Further. Inter-factorial correlations among sub dimensions of smart-phone addiction were found highly significant. It can be concluded that the present work state good reliability and validity of smart-phone addiction scale. After required statistical analysis the scale is found to be highly standardised.

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Published

01-08-2022

How to Cite

Husaini, F., & Imtiaz, N. (2022). Psychometric properties of smart-phone addiction scale. International Journal of Health Sciences, 6(S4), 11820–11827. https://doi.org/10.53730/ijhs.v6nS4.11407

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Vol. 6 No. S4 (2022)

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