Development and Validation Study of a Cell Phone Addiction Scale for Korean Children.
- Author:
Hyun Young KOO
1
;
Myung Sook YOO
Author Information
1. College of Nursing, Catholic University of Daegu, Daegu, Korea. hykoo@cu.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Original Article ; Validation Studies
- Keywords:
Children;
Cell phone;
Addictive behavior
- MeSH:
Behavior, Addictive;
Cellular Phone;
Child;
Dependency (Psychology);
Humans;
Reproducibility of Results;
Child Health
- From:Journal of Korean Academy of Child Health Nursing
2012;18(2):76-84
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
PURPOSE: This study was done to develop a cell phone addiction scale for Korean children. METHODS: The process included construction of a conceptual framework, generation of initial items, verification of content validity, selection of secondary items, preliminary study, and extraction of final items. The participants were 268 children from grades 4 to 6 in two urban elementary schools. Construct validity, internal consistence reliability, and split-half reliability were used to analyze the data. RESULTS: Nine items were categorized into 2 factors explaining 61.29% of total variance. The factors were labeled as obsessive compulsion (6 items) and dependency (3 items). Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the 9 items was .87, and Spearman-Brown coefficient was .83. Scale scores identified children as high risk users, at risk users, or average users by standard scores. CONCLUSION: The above findings indicate that the cell phone addiction scale for children has good validity and reliability when used with Korean children.
