The Psychometric Properties of the Smartphone Application-Based Addiction Scale (SABAS)

Abstract

The goal of the study was to validate the English version of the Smartphone Application-Based Addiction Scale (SABAS; Csibi et al. 2016), which is a short and easy-to-use tool for screening the risk of smartphone application-based addiction. Another aim was to identify the most frequently used smartphone applications and their perceived importance by the participants. Data were collected online from 240 English-speaking volunteers, aged 18 to 69 years. The instruments used were the SABAS, the Nomophobia Questionnaire (NMP-Q), the Brief Sensation Seeking Scale (BSSS), the Deprivation Sensation Scale (DSS), and the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9). Participants also ranked the importance of their most frequently used smartphone applications. The six items of the SABAS yielded one component, which accounted for 52.38% of the total variance. The internal reliability of the scale was good (Cronbach’s alpha 0.81). NMP-Q was a significant predictor of SABAS, explaining 17.6% of the total variance. The regression analysis, with SABAS score as the dependent variable and NMP-Q, DSS, PHQ-9, and BSSS scores as predictors, indicated that approximately 47% of the variance in SABAS was accounted for by the predictors (R 2 = 0.47). The English version of the SABAS appears to be a valid and reliable ultra-brief tool for a quick and easy assessment of smartphone application-based addiction symptoms.

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“…It indicates the importance of considering the specific functions/usage of smartphones when designing the scales for PSU and smartphone addiction. A recent validated Smartphone Application-Based Addiction Scale (SABAS; Csibi et al 2018) based on the six key components of addiction (Griffiths 2005(Griffiths , 2017) might be a good example of developing functional specific scales for PSU or smartphone addiction.…”

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“…Problematic smartphone use was assessed using the (i) Hungarian version of the SABAS (BASS), which is a valid and reliable tool for assessing applications-based problematic Fig. 1 Diagram of age and gender distribution of the sample smartphone use among kindergarten children (under validation), schoolchildren (Csibi et al 2016), and adults (Csibi et al 2019) and (ii) English version of the SABAS validated in an international adult population (Csibi et al 2018). The principal components analysis of the SABAS (BASS) reported a single component for the six items, which accounted for 53% of the total variance in the school children' sample, and 35% of the variance in adults' sample with Hungarian participants.…”

“…To assess the problematic use of smartphone applications, a new scale was recently developed-the Brief Addiction to Smartphone Scale (BASS; Csibi et al 2016), and was psychometrically validated for the Hungarian population, being used to indicate the presence of psychological and behavioral problems related to excessive smartphone use. The Englishlanguage adult version of the BASS, the SABAS (Smartphone Application-Based Addiction Scale [Csibi et al 2018]) was validated using English-speaking populations. Based on psychometric testing, the SABAS is a brief, valid, and reliable instrument that quickly and easily assesses application-based addiction symptoms arising from smartphone use.…”

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