La adicción a las redes sociales y sintomatología ansiosa en adolescentes de 15 y 16 años de una unidad educativa de la ciudad de Quito en el periodo 2023-2024

Abstract

The objective of this research is to determine the correlation between social network addiction and anxiety symptoms in adolescents of the General Unified High School of a Municipal Educational Unit in the city of Quito. For this purpose, a quantitative, correlational, nonexperimental, cross-sectional, non-experimental study was used. The research was based on the participation of 96 adolescent high school students. The instruments used for data collection were the Social Network Addiction Inventory (SNA) and the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI). When examining the correlation between social network addiction and anxious symptomatology, a low but significant positive relationship was observed. Likewise, the level of anxiety presented by the adolescents is at a mostly low level with 73.9%, however, it is important to note that the medium level 20.8% presents an important value by presenting itself as something that could be affecting the mental health of adolescents. On the other hand, the level of addiction to social networks is represented by a medium level with a percentage of 71.8%. And finally, this correlation found between both variables is much more marked in men (0.227), despite the fact that the sample presents a greater number of women.