Testing the validity of the smartphone pervasiveness scale for adolescents with self-reported objective smartphone use data.

ABSTRACT: An ongoing and heated scientific debate pertains to the conceptualization and quantification of adolescents' problematic smartphone use (PSU). To address the limitations of existing surveys, the smartphone pervasiveness scale for adolescents (SPS-A) has been designed to measure the subjective frequency of smartphone usage during significant moments within daily routines. Given the weak correlations in prior literature between self-reported PSU metrics and objective use data, this study investigates the relationships between diverse self-reported objective metrics of smartphone engagement-that is duration, frequency, and count of notifications-and the SPS-A scale, employing a cohort of Swiss adolescents (N = 1396; M_age= 15.8, SD_age= 0.81; 59% female). T

SUBMITTER: Chakraborty S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10981259 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature