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Smartphone Addiction Scale - Short Version (SAS-SV)

Rate ten statements about your smartphone use from Strongly disagree to Strongly agree.

For adults age 18 and older.

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Question 1

Missing planned work due to smartphone use

Question 2

Having a hard time concentrating in class, while doing assignments, or while working due to smartphone use

Question 3

Feeling pain in the wrists or at the back of the neck while using a smartphone

Question 4

Won't be able to stand not having a smartphone

Question 5

Feeling impatient and fretful when I am not holding my smartphone

Question 6

Having my smartphone in my mind even when I am not using it

Question 7

I will never give up using my smartphone even when my daily life is already greatly affected by it.

Question 8

Constantly checking my smartphone so as not to miss conversations between other people on Twitter or Facebook

Question 9

Using my smartphone longer than I had intended

Question 10

The people around me tell me that I use my smartphone too much.

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The SAS-SV measures problematic smartphone use; it is a screening and self-reflection tool, not a diagnosis.
How this is scored

Its published cutoffs of 31 for boys and 33 for girls were validated in adolescents, so adults should treat the total as a self-reflection score rather than a diagnostic threshold.

Source and attribution

Smartphone Addiction Scale - Short Version: Kwon, M., Kim, D.-J., Cho, H., & Yang, S. (2013). The Smartphone Addiction Scale: Development and Validation of a Short Version for Adolescents. PLOS ONE, 8(12), e83558. Published under a CC BY license.