Open AccessScale for Measuring Phubbing in Peruvian University Students: Adaptation, Validation and Results of Its Application
Author(s) -
José Manuel Ríos Ariza,
Antonio Matas Terrón,
Rocío del Pilar Rumiche Chávarry,
Gerardo Raúl Chunga Chinguel
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of new approaches in educational research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 11
ISSN - 2254-7339
DOI - 10.7821/naer.2021.7.606
Subject(s) - psychology , cronbach's alpha , scale (ratio) , reliability (semiconductor) , confirmatory factor analysis , exploratory factor analysis , population , sample (material) , adaptation (eye) , social psychology , face validity , validity , applied psychology , psychometrics , developmental psychology , geography , structural equation modeling , demography , sociology , computer science , cartography , power (physics) , chemistry , physics , chromatography , quantum mechanics , neuroscience , machine learning
Phubbing is defined as ignoring people with whom you have a face-to-face relationship to attend to smartphones. The phenomenon of phubbing particularly affects the teenage and young segments of the population. The main problem lies in the impact it has on individuals’ social relationship. A lack of validated instruments to diagnose this phenomenon has been observed amongst the Spanish-speaking youth. The objective pursued with this research was to analyse the structural validity and reliability of the Spanish scale in a sample of 454 Peruvian university students. A reliability study was carried out following Cronbach and McDonald, complemented with an exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. The results show good reliability and validity values. Finally, some aspects associated with users’ profiles in relation to the scale were discussed too. A need exists to have adapted instruments which permit to measure emerging social threats such as phubbing, so that risk profiles can be identified and for us to be able to act in time. Most of the students surveyed regularly engaged in phubbing, and a significant percentage of them had personal and social problems because of this, including lack of sleep hours or arguments with friends and relatives, to quote but two.