Academic stress and social network addiction in Peruvian university students
Guillermo Segundo Miñan Olivos, Jenny Caroly Flores Capcha, A. Illanes, Yesica Sonia Suria Huincho, Wendy Karina Toledo Figueroa, Jhon Anderson Garcia Zarzosa, Gian Carlos Mejia Huerta
Abstract
Introduction: academic stress and addiction to social networks are current issues that affect many university students in Peru given the technological advancement and competitiveness of modern education. Objective: to analyze the relationship between social network addiction and academic stress in Peruvian university students. Methods: quantitative, correlational, cross-sectional, non-experimental study. Validated and reliable questionnaires were applied to 168 university students who formed a sample with a margin of error of 5 % and a confidence level of 95 %. Results: academic stress was at a medium level while addiction to social networks was at a medium-high level. The most relevant inferential results showed that academic stress had a moderate negative relationship with the dimensions of social network addiction: Obsession (Spearman’s Rho = -0,434, p< 0,001), Lack of control (Spearman’s Rho = -0,462, p< 0,001) and Excessive use (Spearman’s Rho = -0,501, p< 0,001). Conclusions: it was possible to determine a moderate negative relationship between academic stress and addiction to social networks (Spearman Rho = -0,482, p < 0,001), that is, it could be concluded that university students who experience higher levels of academic stress tend to use social networks less addictively