Italian Validation of Smartphone Addiction Scale Short Version for Adolescents and Young Adults (SAS-SV)

Abstract

Objectives: To establish a valid and reliable translated version of Smartphone Addiction Scale for adolescent (SAS-SV) in Italian languages. It is a 10-item, monodimensional, self-administered questionnaire, which was validated using a large Korean sample. Methods: We reported the linguistic validation process and the metric validity of the Italian version of SAS-SV in the Italy. The sample consisted of 633 adolescents and young adults, recruited from High Public School and University in Italy, with a mean age of 18 years. The validation process consisted in forward-backward translation, and factor structure testing. Results: Results showed a good reliability (Cronbach's alpha = .79) and an almost acceptable factor structure. Conclusion: A valid and reliable Smartphone Addiction Scale in Short Version was developed which can be used for research and clinical assessment of adolescents and young adults with smartphone addiction.

The Chinese adaptation of Smartphone Addiction Scale-Short version in Hong Kong adults: a population study

“…Our sample is larger than those of any previous studies on SAS-SV and included respondents with a wide age range. Consistent with previous factor analyses in other cultures [10,12,13,23], our EFA supported a unidimensional structure for the Chinese SAS-SV with most of the variance explained (92.9%), which was replicated by a CFA with adequate model fitness. The SAS-SV score followed a normal distribution with minimal floor and ceiling effects.…”

“…The Smartphone Addiction Scale Short version (SAS-SV) is the brief version of the Smartphone Addiction Scale (SAS), the first scale for assessing problematic use of smartphone [8,9]. The SAS-SV, originally developed in Korean but published in English, has been increasingly used with translation available in several languages, including Turkish [10], German [11], Italian [12], Spanish and French [13], making it a promising instrument for cross-cultural comparisons. However, the psychometric properties of the SAS-SV in Chinese are unknown.…”

Validity and reliability of the Brazilian version of the Smartphone Addiction Scale-Short Version for university students and adult population

“…The scale maintained the semantic, idiomatic and conceptual equivalences of the original version. Initially, confirmatory factor analysis was performed, similarly to the SAS-SV validation for Italian (De Pasquale et al, 2017) population. However, the CFA did not show goof fit indexes (CFI = 0.80; Standardized Root Mean Square Residual (SRMR) = 0.06).…”

Evaluating hand performance and strength in children with high rates of smartphone usage: an observational study

“…Highest values indicate high smartphone addiction [30][31][32] . Specifically, males are addicted when scores are greater than 31, while females are addicted when scores greater than 33 14,33,34) . Upper extremity functional assessments were conducted using the Quick Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand (qDASH) questionnaire.…”