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  • Child Development
  • Digital Media Studies

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  • Digital addiction is a growing concern, with the World Health Organization recognizing gaming disorder.
  • Children are increasingly exposed to digital devices (DDs) from a young age, necessitating early risk detection.
  • Existing scales primarily focus on adults, leaving a gap in assessing childhood digital addiction.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate the Digital Addiction Scale for Children (DASC).
  • To assess problematic digital device usage behaviors in children aged 9 to 12 years.
  • To provide a reliable instrument for early identification of children at risk of digital addiction.

Main Methods:

  • Development and validation of a 25-item self-report instrument, the DASC.
  • Study sample included 822 participants from grade 4 to grade 7 (54.2% males).
  • Statistical analyses included reliability testing (Cronbach's alpha) and confirmatory factor analysis.

Main Results:

  • The DASC demonstrated excellent internal consistency reliability (α = 0.936).
  • Adequate concurrent and criterion-related validities were established for the DASC.
  • Confirmatory factor analysis indicated a very good fit of the DASC to the data.

Conclusions:

  • The DASC is a validated instrument for identifying children at risk of problematic digital device use.
  • The scale facilitates early detection of potential digital addiction in children aged 9-12.
  • The DASC can stimulate further research on digital addiction across diverse cultural contexts.