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Highlights
● Addiction to smartphone and the Internet is considered a major area of health concern.
● The identification of smartphone overuse, with possible addiction, and the identification of those at risk of becoming addicted appear necessary.
● The Smartphone Addiction Scale (SAS) is a self-reported developed scale, which assesses the pathological smartphone use and potential addiction.
● A Persian version was obtained, which was culturally and linguistically equivalent to the original version.
Plain Language Summary
The identification of smartphone overuse, with possible addiction, and the identification of those at risk of becoming addicted appear necessary. There are a variety of instruments designed to assess smartphone addiction. Among them, the SAS is the most valid and reliable one, which is translated into various languages. Because of the potential for cultural differences in health and usage habits, outcome tools should be systematically translated and adapted and, then, validated for use within different cultural contexts. The present research reported the successful psychometric evaluation of an applicable tool that measures pathological smartphone use and potential addiction.