Relación entre el uso problemático de las TIC, el consumo de sustancias y su impacto en la salud mental en estudiantes de 1ro y 2do año de bachillerato de los colegios fiscal, fiscomisional y particular de la zona 9, distrito 17D03, circuito 17D03C08_09_13; distrito 17D06, circuito 17D06C04 y zona 2, distrito 22D02, circuito 22D02C04 durante el año 2016

Abstract

The present research is titled "Relationship of the use of the TIC with the consumption of substances, indicators of Health Mental and performance academic in teenagers from 1 ° and 2 ° year of high school from Fiscal, Fiscomisional and Private of the zone 9 and 2, in 2016." The objective is to evaluate both the relationship between the problematic use of ICT (Information and Comunication Technology) and the consumption of substances psychoactive as its influence in the mental health. To get this purpose we used designing transactional, exploratory, descriptive and qualitative as well as a battery of psychological instruments, it was used to achieve such purpose which was applied to 156 students of 14 and 17 years. The obtained results showed that the majority of the participants used ICT as means of social interaction and for school work. Regarding the use of substances existed a growing trend in the frequency of alcohol consumption in the female gender. On the other hand, the social support was an important protective factor, since he contributed the emotional balance as well as the establishment of well-defined social values