Relación entre el uso problemático de las TIC, el consumo de sustancias y su impacto en la salud mental en estudiantes de primero y segundo años de bachillerato de tres establecimientos educativos de la zona 3: fiscal, distrito 18D01, circuito 18D01C10; fiscomisional, distrito 18D01, circuito 18D01C05_12; y, particular, distrito 18D02, circuito 18D02C03_04_08, de la ciudad de Ambato, Ecuador, durante el año 2016

Abstract

Abstract: This research describes the relationship between the problematic use of ICT, substance consumption and its impact on mental health in students from 14 to 17 years old, of first and second years baccalaureate of three high schools in the educative zone No. 3: one public, one public missional, and one private, in the city of Ambato, Ecuador, during 2016. A battery of eight questionnaires was applied to a sample of 159 students, men and women, in order to determine the correlation between problematic use of substances, problematic use of ICT, and predictors of mental health in the sample of adolescents. The results of the collected data indicated that there's not problematic substance, alcohol or tobacco use, nor problematic use of ICT in the surveyed sample, being an inverse relationship between these two variables and mental health indicators, in the teenagers of both sexes, also was found that social support and positive personality characteristics are relevant protective factors for this group of students.