Smartphone Use and Academic Performance: A Pervasiveness Approach Beyond Addiction

Over the past decade, smartphones have permeated all domains of adolescents’ everyday lives, with research dominated by “smartphone addiction.” This study compares one most used measures smartphone addiction a new alternative measure, Smartphone Pervasiveness Scale for Adolescents (SPS-A), which focuses on frequency use at key social and physiological moments daily life. A sample 3,289 Italian high school students was to validate two constructs compare their suitability academic performance. SPS-A moderately correlated addiction, showed measurement invariance (across ethnic origins, parental education, gender), negatively predicted language math test scores. is nonpathologizing instrument suitable analyzing role in achievement combination students’ backgrounds.