Estudio del uso problemático de los video-juegos y su relación con el apoyo social en adolescentes de la provincia de El Oro, cantón Huaquillas, año 2019-2020

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Abstract: The present work Study of the problematic use of video-games and its relationship with social support in adolescents in the province of El Oro, Huaquillas canton, year 2019-2020 is exploratory, descriptive, cross-sectional and correlational, it had as objective to identify the problematic use of video games and its relationship with social support. For its execution, a sample of 100 adolescents was taken, aged 15 to 17 years, to whom the AD-HOC questionnaire of sociodemographic factors, the IGD-20 questionnaire toevaluate the use of video games and the MOS questionnaire for support was applied. Social.The results obtained show that 89% of the adolescents investigated present a problematic use of video games; Regarding the type of social support that 73% receive, it is love and affection, followed by social networks. There is no correlation between the variables problematic use of video games and social support, because the values obtained from the correlation coefficient between the variables are r = .0012 (emotional support); r = .003 (instrumental support); social networks r = -. 012, love and affection is r = .021.