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Mason, A, Winter, T, Riordan, BC, Griffiths, MD 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8880-6524 and Scarf, D,
2022.
Evaluation of the English version of the Smartphone Application-Based Addiction Scale (SABAS) among an adolescent sample.
Psych, 4 (4), pp. 961-968.
ISSN 2624-8611
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Abstract
The increased use of smartphones among adolescents has highlighted the need to distinguish between problematic and non-problematic smartphone use. To date, there are a lack of short, easy-to-use, and valid psychometric tools to assess smartphone addiction. The primary aim of the present study was to conduct the first psychometric assessment and evaluation of the Smartphone Application-Based Addiction Scale (SABAS) among English-speaking adolescents. Participants were 1175 students recruited from across four different high schools in New Zealand, of which 1031 completed all questions and were used in the final analyses. Several psychometric tests were conducted to ascertain reliability and validity. The SABAS had high internal consistency. Consistent with earlier validation studies, the SABAS displayed weak-moderate, positive relationships with symptoms of depression (PHQ-2), anxiety (GAD-2), and sleep quality. Overall, the SABAS is a sound, unidimensional scale with robust psychometric properties and is a short and easy-to-use measure that can be used confidently among English-speaking adolescents.
| Item Type: | Journal article |
|---|---|
| Publication Title: | Psych |
| Creators: | Mason, A., Winter, T., Riordan, B.C., Griffiths, M.D. and Scarf, D. |
| Publisher: | MDPI |
| Date: | 19 December 2022 |
| Volume: | 4 |
| Number: | 4 |
| ISSN: | 2624-8611 |
| Identifiers: | Number Type 10.3390/psych4040071 DOI 1628954 Other |
| Rights: | © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences |
| Record created by: | Laura Ward |
| Date Added: | 19 Dec 2022 09:44 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Dec 2022 09:44 |
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| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/47681 |
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