Estudio del uso problemático del Instagram y su relación con la soledad en universitarios de la ciudad de Loja durante el año 2022

Abstract

Abstract: The purpose of the present investigation was to identify the contextual sociodemographic characteristics of the use of Instagram in university students of the city of Loja in the year 2022. The study sample corresponds to 100 university students of the city of Loja, of which 75% are women. and the remaining 15% are men. The research design is non-experimental, transactional or cross-sectional, exploratory, descriptive and correlational. The evaluation instruments used are: Ad-Hoc sociodemographic questionnaire, loneliness questionnaire Jong, Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale, and Bergen Instagram Addiction Scale (BIAS). The results indicate that the students do not present addiction to Instagram, in terms of the level of loneliness, a moderate degree is perceived, which means that there is no risk of loneliness in university students, finally, there is no evidence of a significant influence between the variables, this may be associated with the fact that no risk of addiction to Instagram was found.