Determinar la relación entre el tipo de familia con la adicción a los videojuegos en adolescentes de la ciudad de Loja

Abstract

Abstract: Since COVID-19, it has been possible to show an increase in addiction to video games in children and adolescents, due to confinement and the lack of interaction with other people, therefore the importance of knowing about addictions to video games in this vulnerable population. The present investigative work aims to determine the relationship between the type of family and addiction to videogames in adolescents of Loja city. The methodology applied corresponds to a non-experimental study of a descriptive type, the type of sample was non-probabilistic for convenience with 217 teenagers from the city of Loja. The instrument applied was the survey sociodemographic, and the Internet gaming test (IGD-20). Among the results more outstanding it was possible to determine that 43.78% of the population present an addiction to video games, where the male sex predominates, and the family to which they belong is nuclear type. As a conclusion, it can be determined that the use of videogames has no significant relationship with the type of family with a p value <0.09.