Addiction to social networks, academic stress, and academic performance in young university students from Sinaloa and Nayarit.

Abstract

The objective was to identify the relationship between social network addiction, academic stress, and academic performance in 2590 students from two public universities in Sinaloa and Nayarit. A descriptive, correlational, cross-sectional study, the Social Network Addiction and Academic Stress Scale SISCO was applied in a sample of 445 students. The 76.4% were women, the mean age was 20.75 (SD = 5.31). The 41.1% and 78.4% presented medium level in addiction to social networks and academic stress, respectively. Excessive use of social networks was related to academic performance (rs= -.12, p < 0.05). Hours of connection to social networks was related to academic stress: psychological reactions (rs= .09, p < 0.05). The more excessive the use of social networks, the lower the academic performance, and the more hours of social network use, the more academic stress: psychological reactions in young university students.