Reliability of a Thai Version of Smartphone Addiction Scale in Thai Adolescents

Abstract

Prolonged usage of a smartphone becoming smartphone addiction could affect several body systems such as neck or shoulder pain, blurred vision or depression. Although, smartphone addiction affects health of the adolescents, a Thai version of smartphone addiction scale is not presented for applying to assess Thai adolescents with smartphone addiction behavior. The objective of this study was to investigate reliability of a Thai version of smartphone addiction scale in Thai adolescents. Three-hundred and thirty Thai university students (females = 289, males = 41) with average aged 23.30 ± 1.40 years who were interested in research participation between March to June 2019 completed a form of a Thai version of smartphone addiction scale. The results of this study found that the overall internal consistency of a Thai version of smartphone addiction scale representing by a Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was 0.94 and the Cronbach’s alpha coefficients of its each domain including daily-life disturbance, positive anticipation, withdrawal, cyberspace-oriented relationship, overuse and tolerance were 0.94, 0.73, 0.89, 0.84, 0.83, 0.76 and 0.75, respectively. Therefore, a Thai version of smartphone addiction scale has good reliability for the investigation of smartphone addiction in Thai adolescents.

Key words: Smartphone addiction, Reliability, Adolescents