Five-factor Smartphone Addiction Inventory short-form with 10 items
(5F-SPAI-SF)

Five-factor Smartphone Addiction Inventory short-form with 10 items
(5F-SPAI-SF)

Please read each statement and choose the number which indicates how much the statement applied to you. Select a score from 1 (Strongly disagree), 2 (Somewhat disagree), 3 (Somewhat agree), to 4 (Strongly agree) to indicate the extent to which you agree with the item. There are no right or wrong answers.


Time Spent

  1. I feel uneasy once I stop smartphone for a certain period of time.

  2. I find that I have been hooking on smartphone longer and longer.


Compulsivity

  1. I need to spend an increasing amount of time on smartphone to achieve same satisfaction as before.

  2. I feel very vigorous upon smartphone use regardless of the fatigues experienced.


Life Interference

  1. I use smartphone for a longer period of time and spend more money than I had intended.

  2. I find myself indulged on the smartphone at the cost of hanging out with friends.


Craving

  1. I feel the urge to use my smartphone again right after I stopped using it.

  2. I try to spend less time on smartphone, but the efforts were in vain.


Sleep Interference

  1. I make it a habit to use smartphone and the sleep quality and total sleep time decreased.

  2. I feel tired on daytime due to late-night use of smartphone.


Scoring

Sum up scores from all 10 items to compute an overall score ranges from 10 to 40.


Reference:

Tan, C.-S., Tee, X.-Y., Abd Rahim, N. A. B., Siah, Y.-H., & Siah, P.-C. (2022). Assessing the psychometric properties of the Smartphone Addiction Inventory and development of a new short-form among young adults in Malaysia. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-021-00721-w

Copyright statement:

Note that this short form is based on the Smartphone Addiction Inventory (SPAI; Lin et al., 2014). Dr. Tan does not own the copyright of the SPAI. Inquiries about the SPAI shall be directed to the corresponding author.

Lin, Y.-H., Chang, L.-R., Lee, Y.-H., Tseng, H.-W., Kuo, T. B. J., & Chen, S.-H. (2014). Development and validation of the Smartphone Addiction Inventory (SPAI). PLoS One, 9(6), e98312. https://doi.org/10. 1371/journal.pone.0098312


Remark:

There are minor differences in the wording of some items between Lin et al. (2014) and Simó-Sanz et al. (2018). The 10 items presented here are obtained from Lin et al. (2014).


Simó-Sanz, C., Ballestar-Tarín, M. L., & Martínez-Sabater, A. (2018). Smartphone Addiction Inventory (SPAI): Translation, adaptation and validation of the tool in Spanish adult population. PLoS One, 13(10), e0205389. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205389