Relación entre adicción a internet y las habilidades sociales en adolescentes

Abstract

The present project was carried out with the objective of determining the level of Internet addiction and its relationship with the level of social skills in adolescents. In the case of Internet addiction, the Lima Internet Addiction Scale (EAIL) is used, and for social skills, the Goldstein Social Skills Assessment Scale is used in a population of 207 adolescents between 12 and 17 years of age. The applied methodology was based on a quantitative approach, since the information extracted through the scales was compared using the Pearson correlational test, to obtain the corresponding relationship. It was found that the variables Internet addiction and social skills have an inverse relationship, that is, while one of the variables increases, the other decreases and vice versa. In addition, it was shown that adolescents between 12 and 14 years of age have higher levels of Internet addiction.