Addiction to social networks and cyberbullying in adolescents

Abstract

The objective of the study was to determine if there is a significant relationship between addiction to social networks and cyberbullying in adolescents who study at the Central Andean Adventist Educational Association. It follows the guidelines of a non-experimental, cross-sectional, correlational design. 326 adolescents from the secondary level of both sexes between 12 and 17 years of age participated in the study. For the measurement of the variables, they were used; the Social Media Addiction Questionnaire (ARS) constructed by Escurra and Salas (2014) and the European Cyberbullying Intervention Project Questionnaire (ECIPQ), both instruments are valid and reliable according to them. On the other hand, the data were processed, performing descriptive and correlation analyzes. It was found that addiction to social networks and cyberbullying are significantly related (r = .381 **, p = 0.00). That is, the participants who have a higher level of addiction to social networks in turn present higher indicators of developing cyberbullying.