. Seyyed Salman Alavi; . Mohammad Reza Maracy; . Fereshte Jannatifard; . Rezvan Ojaghi; . Hossein Rezapour
Volume 4, Issue 3 , June 2014, , Pages 1-5
Abstract
Background: A number of diagnostic scales or questionnaires have been developed in recentyears, to assess mobile phone dependency. A valid and reliable assessment instrument forcorrespondence ...
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Background: A number of diagnostic scales or questionnaires have been developed in recentyears, to assess mobile phone dependency. A valid and reliable assessment instrument forcorrespondence of Iranian culture is essential. The aim of our study is to validate the Iranianversion of the Cell Phone Dependency Questionnaire (CPDQ). Materials and Methods: In thiscross-sectional study, data were collected from 784 students, who were studying in four mainIsfahan Universities. The participants completed the demographic questionnaire, CPDQ,anonymously. To analyze the data we used concurrent validity, factor analysis, internalconsistency, split-half, and test–retest. Results: We extracted three factors including Salience,Overusing of the cell phone, compulsive use of SMS. Cronbach’s alpha of the CPDQ was.88 (Cronbach’s alpha of the factors were 0.85, 0.70, and 0.76,, respectively). Conclusion: TheCPDQ proved to be a reliable questionnaire to assess the extent of problems caused by the‘misuse’ of the cell phone in Iranian society.