Almost all adolescents between the ages of 12 and 19 own a smartphone and these offer
quick access to the internet and social media, which facilitates message transmissions or …

… To verify the factorial structure identified with EFA, we performed a confirmatory factor …
Moreover, the CFA was conducted on the same sample, which makes the results of this study to be …

… It is interesting to note that the same reference has been used to define both SA and PSU, …
which subjective reports can be verified with objective testing, or physiological measures), …

… refer to the concept of “smartphone addiction”. In this regard, … “smartphone addiction” to
describe excessive smartphone use … Yet, at the same time, this study provides important data and …

… The lack of a gold standard in the field frustrates this goal, but also highlights the need for
further validation work instead of developing new instruments, especially as the most popular …

… and the risk of smartphone addiction may differ during various life … Based on psychometric
testing, the SABAS is a brief, valid, … At the same time, duration of smartphone use is positively …

… The same data is presented in the right panel, but with the users ordered by decreasing
number of daily UI interactions. Here there appears to be increased clustering of SA for users at …

… smartphone addiction among the youth and to test the adapted scale by measuring the gender
wise difference in smartphone addiction. … and validation of a smartphone addiction scale (…

… This research not only underscores the importance of considering a specific form of
application to understand the smartphone addiction, but also advances the knowledge of social …

… Although the majority of the sample reported their perceived quality of life would be the
same without smartphone access, 38.5% (n = 133) of participants perceived that their quality of …