The validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the smart phone addiction scale-short form for adolescent

The aim of this research is to examine the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the smartphone addiction scale-short form for adolescents (SAS-SV; Kwon, Kim, Cho, & Yang, 2013). Participants were 312 high school students (183 were female and 129 were male) from Bolu Ataturk Anatolian High School. The results of confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the unidimensional model was well fitted (X-2 = 56.92, df= 31, RMSEA= .052, NFI= .96, CFI= .98, IFI= .98, RFI= .94, GFI= .96, and SRMR= .040 The internal consistency coefficient of the scale was .88. The corrected item-total correlations of SAS-SV ranged from .43 to .76. Overall findings demonstrated that this scale had high validity and reliability scores and that it may be used as a valid and reliable instrument in order to assess smartphone addiction levels of individuals. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.