Abstract
In many youth communities in the world, the misuse of smartphones leads to 'smartphone addiction', creating mental health concerns. This research aimed at studying the smartphone addiction among the youth and to test the adapted scale by measuring the gender wise difference in smartphone addiction. The steps followed in the study include item development, data collection and psychometric evaluation. The researchers developed a 24-itemstool on scientific rationale by adapting few existing tools, considered ideal for the assessment of smartphone addiction. The adapted tool is considered comprehensive as it can be used for various measurement purposes. The study found that there exists significant difference in smartphone addiction between males and females wherein males have higher level of smartphone addiction according to the adapted tool.