The paradox of phone attachment: Development and validation of the Young Adult Attachment to Phone Scale (YAPS)

Trub, Leora; Barbot, Baptiste

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2016.07.050

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“…In a similar vein, some scales appear to measure the degree to which individuals report salient emotional connections to their smartphone. The Young Adult Attachment to Phone Scale (Trub and Barbot, 2016) and the Adolescent Preoccupations with Screens Scale (Hunter et al, 2017) share item content related to feelings of safety with and feelings of anxiety when without one's phone. Such scales measure attachment styles, in that an individual's mood state can shift depending on the smartphone device's proximity.…”

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Problematic Mobile Phone and Smartphone Use Scales: A Systematic Review

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The popularity of smartphones is undeniable in nearly all facets of society. Despite the many benefits attributed to the technology, concern has grown over the potential for excessive smartphone use to become problematic in nature. Due to the growing concerns surrounding the recognized and unrecognized implications of smartphone use, great efforts have been made through research to evaluate, label and identify problematic smartphone use mostly through the development and administration of scales assessing the behavior. This study examines 78 existing validated scales that have been developed over the past 13 years to measure, identify or characterize excessive or problematic smartphone use by evaluating their theoretical foundations and their psychometric properties. Our review determined that, despite an abundance of self-report scales examining the construct, many published scales lack sufficient internal consistency and test-retest reliability. Additionally, there is a lack of research supporting the theoretical foundation of many of the scales evaluated. Future research is needed to better characterize problematic smartphone use so that assessment tools can be more efficiently developed to evaluate the behavior in order to avoid the excessive publication of seemingly redundant assessment tools.

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Section: Scale Contentmentioning

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Problematic Mobile Phone and Smartphone Use Scales: A Systematic Review

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“…In the present study, it is contended (and supported by empirical studies) that social media content is largely responsible for the attentional drift associated with frequent and prolonged smartphone engagement among young adults ( 95 , 96 ). A smartphone is therefore viewed as the medium providing access to the desired content reflecting the attachment formed to the device among young adults ( 97 – 103 ) and intensified by experiences of nomophobia (NOMO; the fear of being without a smartphone) ( 104 – 107 ) and FOMO ( 29 , 108 , 109 ). However, the assessment of the relative role of process smartphone use and its relationship to smartphone distraction requires further exploration.…”

Section: Smartphone Distraction and Relevant Psychological Constructsmentioning

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Exploring the Dimensions of Smartphone Distraction: Development, Validation, Measurement Invariance, and Latent Mean Differences of the Smartphone Distraction Scale (SDS)

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Background: Distraction is a functional emotion regulation strategy utilized to relieve emotional distress. Within the attention economy perspective, distraction is increasingly associated with digital technology use, performance impairments and interference with higher-order cognitive processes. Research on smartphone distraction and its association with problematic smartphone use is still scarce and there is no available psychometric assessment tool to assess this cognitive and emotive process parsimoniously.Method: The present study reports the development and evaluation of the psychometric properties of the Smartphone Distraction Scale (SDS) through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, construct validity, gender invariance, and latent mean differences. The study was conducted in a sample of British university students (N = 1,001; M = 21.10 years, SD = 2.77).Results: The 16-item SDS was best conceptualized in a four-factor model solution comprising attention impulsiveness, online vigilance, emotion regulation, and multitasking. Construct validity was established using relevant psychosocial and mental health measures, with SDS scores being moderately associated with deficient self-regulation and problematic social media use. Gender measurement invariance was achieved at the configural, metric, and scalar levels, and latent mean differences indicated that females had significantly higher means than males across all four SDS latent factors.Discussion: The SDS presents with several strengths, including its theoretical grounding, relatively short length, and sound psychometric properties. The SDS enables the assessment of distraction, which appears to be one of the pathways to problematic smartphone use facilitating overuse and overreliance on smartphones for emotion regulation processes. The assessment of distraction in relation to problematic use in vulnerable populations may facilitate interventions that could encourage metacognition and benefit these groups by allowing sustained productivity in an increasingly disrupted work and social environment.

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“…Although developed in Asian countries, the SAS and the SPAI have been adopted worldwide to measure smartphone addiction, demonstrating good psychometric properties across different cultures (Demirci, Orhan, Demirdas, Akpinar, & Sert, 2014; Lopez-Fernandez, 2017; Pavia, Cavani, Di Blasi, & Giordano, 2016). In addition to the SAS, SPAI, and SAPS, two other scales have recently been developed to assess specific aspects of human–smartphone interaction: the “Young Adult Attachment to Phone Scale” (YAPS; Trub & Barbot, 2016) and the “Nomophobia Questionnaire” (NMP-Q; Yildirim & Correia, 2015). These scales both measure smartphone attachment from different perspectives, again, using an addiction-oriented approach.…”

Section: Smartphone Overuse and Smartphone Addictionmentioning

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The Psychology of Smartphone: The Development of the Smartphone Impact Scale (SIS)

2019

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Smartphones are changing lives in a number of ways. However, the psychological literature has primarily focused on smartphone overuse, neglecting the impacts that are not strictly related to problematic use. The present research was aimed to develop a comprehensive self-report scale that accounts for the cognitive, affective, social, and behavioral impacts of smartphones in everyday life—the Smartphone Impact Scale (SIS). Study 1 ( N = 407) yielded a preliminary version of the scale, which was refined in Study 2 ( N = 601). The SIS is a 26-item scale that measures seven dimensions of smartphone impact. Results revealed meaningful associations between its subscales, psychosocial constructs, and daily usage of smartphones and apps. The SIS broadens the view of human–smartphone interaction by extending the concept of problematic smartphone use to further dimensions (e.g., emotion regulation) and introducing a proper measurement of underinvestigated smartphone impacts (e.g., tasks support). The implications of each SIS subscale are discussed.

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The paradox of phone attachment: Development and validation of the Young Adult Attachment to Phone Scale (YAPS)

Cited by 46 publications

References 58 publications

Problematic Mobile Phone and Smartphone Use Scales: A Systematic Review

Problematic Mobile Phone and Smartphone Use Scales: A Systematic Review

Exploring the Dimensions of Smartphone Distraction: Development, Validation, Measurement Invariance, and Latent Mean Differences of the Smartphone Distraction Scale (SDS)

The Psychology of Smartphone: The Development of the Smartphone Impact Scale (SIS)

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