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Validation of a Malay Version of the Smartphone Addiction Scale among Medical Students in Malaysia

Ching SM 1 , Yee A 2 , Ramachandran V 3 , Sazlly Lim SM 4 , Wan Sulaiman WA 4 , Foo YL 4 Show all authors , Hoo FK 4

Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia; Malaysian Research Institute on Ageing, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia
  • 2 Department of Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya Centre of Addiction Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 3 Malaysian Research Institute on Ageing, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia
  • 4 Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
PLoS One, 2015;10(10):e0139337.
PMID: 26431511 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0139337

Abstract

This study was initiated to determine the psychometric properties of the Smart Phone Addiction Scale (SAS) by translating and validating this scale into the Malay language (SAS-M), which is the main language spoken in Malaysia. This study can distinguish smart phone and internet addiction among multi-ethnic Malaysian medical students. In addition, the reliability and validity of the SAS was also demonstrated.

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