Abstract

VASQUEZ VALVERDE, Rosángela Ivonne et al. Validación de la Escala Riesgo de Adicción al Móvil (RAM) en estudiantes universitarios. Rev Eug Esp [online]. 2023, vol.17, n.3, pp.62-72. ISSN 2661-6742.  https://doi.org/10.37135/ee.04.18.07.

A smartphone is a helpful tool for communication, information seeking, and socialization; However, its excessive use could generate addictive behaviors, generating psychological, academic, and work problems. An investigation was carried out to validate the Smartphone Addiction Scale (SAS) in university students of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Universidad Peruana Unión during the 2022 cycle - II. The study design was non-experimental, cross-sectional, and instrumental. Six hundred fifty-eight students participated (50.8% men). The instrument presented adequate content validity, unidimensional internal structure (CFI = 0.99; RMSEA = 0.05 [90% CI: 0.04-0.07]; SRMR = 0.04), and adequate reliability established through the coefficients: omega = 0.89 [95% CI: 0.86-0.91] and H = 0.91. The instrument had adequate reliability and was recommended for evaluating the risk of mobile addiction through the inference and interpretation of its scores in university students of health sciences, being useful as a diagnosis during the design of preventive measures concerning this problem and as a source of data about the effects on academic performance and engagement.

Keywords : Technology Addiction; Cell Phone Use; Students, Health Occupations; Risk Assessment.

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