Cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Evidence of the Phubbing Scale

Santos, Adriane de Almeida; Torres, Marck de Souza; Santos, Lívia Fernanda Nascimento dos; Martins, Henrique de Araújo

doi:10.1590/1982-4327e3332

Adriane de Almeida Santos

conception and design of this study

data analysis and interpretation

manuscript revision

approval of the final version

assumes public responsibility for the content of the manuscript

Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus-AM, Brazil.

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7934-0558

Marck de Souza Torres

conception and design of this study

data analysis and interpretation

manuscript revision

approval of the final version

assumes public responsibility for the content of the manuscript

Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus-AM, Brazil.

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0717-982X

Lívia Fernanda Nascimento dos Santos

conception and design of this study

data analysis and interpretation

manuscript revision

approval of the final version

assumes public responsibility for the content of the manuscript

Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus-AM, Brazil.

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5788-268X

Henrique de Araújo Martins

conception and design of this study

data analysis and interpretation

manuscript revision

approval of the final version

assumes public responsibility for the content of the manuscript

Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus-AM, Brazil.

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6386-9382

Correspondence address: Adriane de Almeida Santos. Universidade Federal do Amazonas. Av. Rodrigo Otávio, 6200 - Setor Sul - Campus Universitário - Coroado I. Manaus-AM, Brazil. CEP 69.080-900. Email: adrianeaas7@gmail.com

Adriane de Almeida Santos has a master’s degree in Psychology from the Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus-AM, Brazil.

Marck de Souza Torres is a Professor at the Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus-AM, Brazil.

Lívia Fernanda Nascimento dos Santos is a Psychology student at the Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus-AM, Brazil.

Henrique de Araújo Martins is a master’s student in Psychology at the Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus-AM, Brazil.

Associate editor: Vanessa Barbosa Romera Leme

	Frequency	Valid Percentage
Acre (AC)	27	1.7
Alagoas (AL)	29	1.9
Amazonas (AM)	110	7.1
Bahia (BA)	43	2.8
Ceará (CE)	52	3.4
Distrito Federal (DF)	17	1.1
Espírito Santo (ES)	12	0.8
Goiás (GO)	45	2.9
Maranhão (MA)	18	1.2
Mato Grosso (MT)	21	1.4
Mato Grosso do Sul (MS)	14	0.9
Minas Gerais (MG)	167	10.8
Pará (PA)	17	1.1
Paraíba (PB)	40	2.6
Paraná (PR)	233	15.0
Pernambuco (PE)	16	1.0
Piauí (PI)	10	0.6
Rio de Janeiro (RJ)	82	5.3
Rio Grande do Norte (RN)	24	1.5
Rio Grande do Sul (RS)	138	8.9
Rondônia (RO)	4	0.3
Roraima (RR)	6	0.4
Santa Catarina (SC)	64	4.1
São Paulo (SP)	342	22.1
Sergipe (SE)	8	0.5
Tocantins (TO)	12	0.8
Total	1551	100.0

Items	Factor 1	Factor 2	Commonality
PS1. My eyes are set on my cellphone when I’m with other people	0,80		0.65
PE2. I’m always busy with my cell phone when I’m with friends	0,85		0.72
PE3. People complain about how I handle my cell phone.	0,63		0.39
PE4. I use my cell phone when I’m at dinner with friends.	0,79		0.62
PE5. I don’t think I bother my partner (or family members, in case I don’t have a partner) when I’m busy on my cellphone.	0,25		0.06
PE6. My cellphone is always within reach.		0,59	0.35
PE7. One of the first things I do when I wake up is check the messages on my cellphone.		0,56	0.31
PE7. One of the first things I do when I wake up is check the messages on my cellphone.		0,67	0.45
PE9. I increase the use of my cellphone with each passing day.9. I spend increasingly less time on social, personal, and professional activities due to cellphone use.		0,64	0.41
PE10. I spend increasingly less time on social, personal, and professional activities due to cellphone use.		0,60	0.36
Composite Reliability	0,85	0.75
H-latent	0,90	0.89
H-observed	0,91	0.90

Model	X ² (df)	X ² /df	*CFI*	*TLI*	*SRMR*	RMSEA (90% IC)
Model 1	65.700*	1.932	0.991	0.988	0.040	0.034
	*					(0.021-0.046)
	(34)
Model 2 - Correlated PS6 and PS7	50.330*	1.525	0.995	0.993	0.033	0.026
Model 2 - Correlated PS6 and PS7	* (33)					(0.009-0.039)

Factors	M	SD	1
1. Communication Disorders	8.5	2.9
2. Phone Obsession	16.4	4.2	0.48**
2. Phone Obsession			[.44, .52]

	CD	Z	R	TO	Z	r
	*M(SD)*			*M(SD)*
GENDER
Women	8.6(2.9)	-1.69	0.04	16.6(4.2)	-2.00	0.05
Men	8.4(2.9)			16.1(4.1)

[1] Correspondence address: Adriane de Almeida Santos. Universidade Federal do Amazonas. Av. Rodrigo Otávio, 6200 - Setor Sul - Campus Universitário - Coroado I. Manaus-AM, Brazil. CEP 69.080-900. Email: adrianeaas7@gmail.com

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Cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Evidence of the Phubbing Scale

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