Scale to Assess Leaders' Perceptions about their Workers' Digital Addiction

Background: With the evolution of technologies and the mobility factor, new digital devices have emerged, influencing human behavior and provoking diverse dependencies due to their abusive use. Collective environments begin to exhibit the symptoms of such dependencies, compromising people's quality of life (QOL). The objective of the present study was to validate the scale to evaluate the perception of leaders on digital employee addiction (EPLDDE) initially with ۱۷ questions. Methods:The scale was constructed with real situations of digital addiction and through the evaluation of the semantic comprehension and consistency of the items by judges until final formatting of the instrument. Data collection was done via the internet. The sample consisted of ۳۱۲ volunteers from a federal state-owned company. After data collection, a database was created for statistical analysis. Statistical program R was used. Findings: Bartlett’s and Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) tests confirmed adequacy for factorial analysis. Three statistical criteria were used, and scree plot presented adequate commonalities indicating ۵ factors and the withdrawal of ۳ questions from the scale. In the second AF, results ratified ۱۴ questions. Cronbach's alpha showed a positive result of ۰.۸۱۳۱۷۱۷. Conclusion: The ۱۴-item EPLDDE scale was validated for the evaluation of the perception of leaders regarding digital dependence of employees in organizations. This scale can contribute to studies on organizational QOL. The limitations found did not compromise the results.

Keywords:

Addiction digital , Organizations , Companies , employee , Leaders