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Korean Academy of Child Health Nursing (한국아동간호학회)
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Development and Validation Study of a Cell Phone Addiction Scale for Korean Children

아동용 휴대전화 중독 도구 개발 및 타당화 연구

  • 구현영 (대구가톨릭대학교 간호대학) ;
  • 유명숙 (대구가톨릭대학교 간호대학)
  • Received : 2012.02.15
  • Accepted : 2012.04.13
  • Published : 2012.04.30
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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.

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