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Development and Validation of a Smartphone Addiction Scale (SAS)
PLoS ONE · 2013 · Vol. 8(2) · pp. e56936–e56936
Min Jeong Kwon(Catholic University of Korea)Joon-Yeop Lee(Catholic University of Korea)Wang‐Youn Won(St. Paul's Hospital)Jae‐Woo Park(Catholic University of Korea)Jung‐Ah Min(Catholic University of Korea)Changtae Hahn(Seoul St. Mary's Hospital)Xinyu Gu(Catholic University of Korea)Jihye Choi(Seoul St. Mary's Hospital)Dai‐Jin Kim✉(Seoul St. Mary's Hospital)
Abstract
This study developed the first scale of the smartphone addiction aspect of the diagnostic manual. This scale was proven to be relatively reliable and valid.
Impact of Technology on AdolescentsPsychosocial Factors Impacting YouthEnergy and Environmental SystemsCronbach's alphaAddictionConcurrent validityScale (ratio)PsychologyClinical psychologyCorrelationInternal consistencyReliability (semiconductor)Behavioral addiction
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AdolescentAdultFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedReproducibility of ResultsBehavior, AddictiveCell PhoneYoung AdultSelf Report
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