Nomofobia y su relación con las habilidades sociales en adolescentes

Abstract

Nomophobia is the panic that people feel when they are without a mobile phone, to such an extent that subjects prefer to build sociability networks in virtuality, thus limiting the development of social skills within their environment. The objective of the study was to determine the relationship between nomophobia and social skills in adolescents from an Educational Unit in the city of Ambato - Ecuador. For this purpose, the Nomophobia Questionnaire (NMP-Q) in the Spanish version and the Social Skills Scale Test were applied to 171 students, of whom 86 are women and 85 are men. The study has a quantitative approach; It is descriptive and correlational. A type of non-probabilistic sampling was used. The results obtained indicate that 69% of the participants present a moderate level of nomophobia; while 79% present a medium level in relation to the development of social skills. Regarding the relationship between variables, it is observed that nomophobia and social skills have a slight negative correlation (p<0.05, Rho= -0.427). Therefore, the higher the level of nomophobia, the lower would be the ability to develop social skills in the subjects evaluated