Open AccessYoung university students and techno-addiction. The use of social networks in their social-educational context
Author(s) -
Sandra Martínez Pérez,
Bárbara Fernández Robles,
Julio Barroso Osuna,
María del Carmen Llorente Cejudo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
digital education review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.318
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 2013-9144
DOI - 10.1344/der.2021.39.105-120
Subject(s) - addiction , context (archaeology) , adaptation (eye) , psychology , scale (ratio) , social media , sociology , pedagogy , geography , computer science , cartography , world wide web , archaeology , neuroscience
The use of Smartphones, Tablets and Social Networks has grown exponentially in recent years as a means of communicating, interacting, sharing and working collaboratively. Increasingly, young people are recognising that they are establishing a greater relationship with technologies for educational and leisure purposes, to meet new people, create new languages and even to become dependent on them. The aim of our study is to know, analyse and determine the degree of addiction of young people from twelve Spanish universities. To do this, we applied an adaptation of the "Social Media Addiction Scale-Student Form" (SMAS-SF, Sahin, 2018) which was answered by 1870 students from seven Autonomous Communities (Andalusia, Asturias, Castile-Leon, Catalonia, Galicia, Murcia and the Basque Country). The results obtained show significant differences between the young people of the different Autonomous Communities; moreover, the students do not perceive themselves as people addicted to technology and social networks.