The Digital Life Balance Scale: Psychometric Validation and Its Role in Smartphone Addiction, Anxiety, and Life Satisfaction in the Spanish Context
Article / Journal
Author(s) / editor(s):
Andrea Guazzini
,
Angel Blanch
,
Mirko Duradoni
,
Olga Malas
Year: 2026
Language(s): English
Abstract:
This study validates the Spanish version of the Digital Life Balance Scale (DLB-Scale) with 334 Spanish university students and examines its links to smartphone addiction, life satisfaction, and anxiety. The scale shows strong reliability, solid one-factor structure, and gender invariance. Higher digital life balance is associated with lower smartphone addiction and anxiety, and higher life satisfaction, explaining especially substantial variance in smartphone addiction. The DLB-Scale emerges as a useful tool for assessing digital balance and informing interventions to improve well-being and reduce digital stressors.
https://doi.org/10.1155/hbe2/7957318
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