Dimensiones de la personalidad y el riesgo de adicción a las redes sociales e internet en estudiantes adolescentes del Colegio de Bachillerato Ciudad de Cuenca en el periodo 2022

Abstract

Internet and social media are handy tools, however, their excessive use can turn into addictive behavior. In addition, addiction to social networks and the Internet can be related to personality dimensions, that is, the traits of a certain personality dimension cause an individual to find more or less satisfaction when using social networks and the Internet frequently. For this reason, this research aimed to identify the relationship between personality dimensions and the risk of addiction to social media and the Internet in adolescent students from the Ciudad de Cuenca High School in the period 2022 in the city of Cuenca. A study was carried out with a quantitative approach, cross-sectional and correlational. We worked with 94 participants of which 51 were women and 43 were men between 16 and 17 years of age. The Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire was applied to measure the variable of personality dimensions and the Risk Scale for Addiction-Adolescents to Social Media and the Internet to measure the variable of addiction to social media and the Internet. As result, it was obtained that the percentage of people at risk of internet addiction was minimal compared to the total number of participants. It was also found that psychoticism is the predominant dimension in students and a positive average correlation was found between the Extraversion dimension and the Risk of Addiction to Social Networks and the Internet. It is concluded that addiction to Social Networks and the Internet is a problem that should be prioritized, so prevention plans should be developed in which personality dimensions can be considered as the central axis.