Evaluating Gender Differences in Problematic Smartphone Use

IF 3.2 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED

European Journal of Psychological Assessment Pub Date : 2022-09-13 DOI:10.1027/1015-5759/a000730

Laura Salerno, Analyn Alquitran, Noor Alibrahim, G. Lo Coco, M. Di Blasi, C. Giordano

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Abstract

Abstract. The Smartphone Addiction Inventory (SPAI) is widely used to measure problematic smartphone use (PSU). Although the SPAI has been translated and validated in different countries, its measurement invariance across gender has received little research attention. This study aimed to examine whether men and women interpreted the Italian version of the SPAI (SPAI-I) similarly and, consequently, whether the observed gender differences in SPAI scores, which have been shown in previous studies, could be due to true differences, rather than to differences in measurement. Six hundred nineteen Italian young adults ( Mage = 22.02 ± 2.63; 55.7% women) took part in the study and completed the SPAI-I. Multigroup CFA was applied to test the measurement invariance across gender, and the item parameter invariance was investigated with the item-response theory (IRT) differential item functioning (DIF) method for multidimensional models. Evidence of measurement invariance across gender was found. Only one item (i.e., item 14, “The idea of using smartphone comes as the first thought on mind when waking up each morning”) out of 24 items of the SPAI-I showed DIF with a large effect size. Gender-related differences found with the SPAI-I reflect true differences in smartphone overuse rather than specific characteristics of the measure.

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评估有问题的智能手机使用中的性别差异

摘要智能手机成瘾量表（SPAI）被广泛用于衡量有问题的智能手机使用情况（PSU）。尽管SPAI已在不同国家得到翻译和验证，但其跨性别的测量不变性很少受到研究关注。本研究旨在检验男性和女性对意大利版SPAI（SPAI-I）的解释是否相似，因此，先前研究中显示的SPAI评分中观察到的性别差异是否可能是由于真正的差异，而不是测量上的差异。619名意大利年轻人（Mage=22.02±2.63；55.7%的女性）参加了这项研究并完成了SPAI-I。应用多组CFA测试跨性别的测量不变性，并用项目反应理论（IRT）微分项目功能（DIF）方法研究多维模型的项目参数不变性。发现了跨性别测量不变性的证据。在SPAI-i的24个项目中，只有一个项目（即第14项，“每天早上醒来时第一个想到的是使用智能手机”）显示了具有较大效果大小的DIF。SPAI-I发现的与性别相关的差异反映了智能手机过度使用的真实差异，而不是该测量的具体特征。

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European Journal of Psychological Assessment PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED-

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