Estudio del uso problemático del internet y su relación con las variables psicosociales, en universitarios de la ciudad de Loja durante el año 2020

Abstract

Abstract: The problematic use of the internet is an issue that currently has brought problems due to the neglect of activities by young university students, whether they are derived from family, educational and even personal contexts. The objective was to determine the problematic use of the internet in young university students, the study sample being 682 participants belonging to the Particular Technical University of Loja, National University of Loja and International University of Ecuador, we worked with a non-experimental, cross-sectional research design exploratory, descriptive and correlational. The ad hoc sociodemographic questionnaire, Internet-related experiences questionnaire (CERI), psychological flexibility and inflexibility questionnaire (AAQ-II), perceived stress questionnaire (PSS-14) and social support questionnaire (MOS) were applied. Regarding the results, 11.1% suffer from problems with the internet, 17.3% show psychological inflexibility, 31.1% reflect perceived stress, 14.7% show low social support; Likewise, a negative correlation coefficient is shown between CERI and MOS -0.103 and CERI with the AAQ-II questionnaire at 0.210.