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
I feel uneasy once I stop smartphone for a certain period of time.
I find that I have been hooking on smartphone longer and longer.
Compulsivity
I need to spend an increasing amount of time on smartphone to achieve same satisfaction as before.
I feel very vigorous upon smartphone use regardless of the fatigues experienced.
Life Interference
I use smartphone for a longer period of time and spend more money than I had intended.
I find myself indulged on the smartphone at the cost of hanging out with friends.
Craving
I feel the urge to use my smartphone again right after I stopped using it.
I try to spend less time on smartphone, but the efforts were in vain.
Sleep Interference
I make it a habit to use smartphone and the sleep quality and total sleep time decreased.
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