Short version of the smartphone addiction scale: Measurement invariance across gender

Heng Yue; Xiwen Yue; Bo Liu; Xueshan Li; Yaohua Dong; Hugejiletu Bao

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0283256

Short version of the smartphone addiction scale: Measurement invariance across gender

PLoS One. 2023 Mar 22;18(3):e0283256. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0283256. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Heng Yue¹, Xiwen Yue², Bo Liu¹, Xueshan Li¹, Yaohua Dong¹, Hugejiletu Bao³

Affiliations

¹ School of Psychology, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot, China.
² Beidou College, Wuhan Qingchuan University, Wuhan, China.
³ College of Physical Education, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot, China.

Abstract

The Smartphone Addiction Scale Short Version (SAS-SV) has been widely used in research, but little is known about the measurement invariance across gender. The current study measured SAS-SV invariance between male and female college students in a sample of 1112 participants. Single- and multiple-group confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) of smartphone addiction symptom ratings were conducted using R program with RStudio. SAS-SV was psychometrically robust in measuring the severity of smartphone addiction among college students, as well as the gender-based invariance. The differences in SAS-SV between male and female participants were likely to represent true gender differences, and meaningful comparisons could be made.

Copyright: © 2023 Yue et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Behavior, Addictive* / diagnosis
Female
Humans
Internet Addiction Disorder*
Male
Smartphone
Students
Surveys and Questionnaires

Grants and funding

Authors: Hugejiletu BAO, Grant numbers: 2021MS03099, funder full name: Inner Mongolia Natural Science Foundation, Exercise improves executive function in patients with chronic pain, The role of the funder: study design, decision to publish.