| Development and Validation Study of a Cell Phone Addiction Scale for Korean Children. |
| Hyun Young Koo, Myung Sook Yoo |
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| College of Nursing, Catholic University of Daegu, Daegu, Korea. hykoo@cu.ac.kr |
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| Abstract |
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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. |
| Key words:
Children; Cell phone; Addictive behavior |
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