Introduction:

The use of technology has positioned as an indispensable tool in the nowadays of the labor, scholar, and even social spheres. With that, the involving with the technologies allows us to perform with higher productivity and efficiency. However, a disadaptative use can promote diverse conditions that influence in the health and social relations of the users.

Objective:

It was designed a scale for the measure of technology dependence in people, integrated by five factors that were named Phubbing, Generation Mute, Use of technology while driving, Compulsive use of cellphone, and Life on social media.

Method:

1026 subjects participated, of which 63 % were males. Quantitative, cross-sectional study, with non-experimental design and non-probability sampling, that had 1026 participants, of which 63 % were men. The Technodependence Scale developed by the authors for the present study was used, made up of a total of 15 items divided into five factors (Cell phone use when driving, Life in social networks, Mute Generation, Compulsive cell phone use and Phubbing), in addition to sociodemographic variables, with a reliability index of 0,83.

Results:

It was found statistically significant correlation between the five factors that define the scale, with a 59,23 % of the explained variance, reliability index through Cronbach’s alpha = 0,83, and a good adjustment (chi-square= 245,957; GI= 136; CMIN/DF= 3,23; p=0,000; CFI= 0,972; and RMSE=0,047).

Conclusions:

The findings suggest that the scale has adequate psychometric properties to measure technodependence in the Mexican population. This research provides a scale with which it is intended to stimulate the research on this variable in the country and that in the medium term will allow understanding its etiology, studying its relationship with other psychosocial risk factors and designing prevention and intervention programs in order to improve the relationship of users, with Information and Communication Technologies, creating in turn healthy spaces for use.

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