Social Media Addiction and Social Skills of Students at an Educational Institution in Ancón 2022

For the development of the present study, the general objective was to establish the relationship between addiction to social networks and the social skills of the students of an Educational Institution of Ancón, Lima 2022, for which a scientific, descriptive method was applied, a type of basic research with a relational level and a non-experimental correlational design, for which the sample was made up of 208 students from the I.E. Sagrada Familia APOVA de Ancón, Lima 2022 who responded to the Adolescent Addiction Risk Scale to Social Networks and the Internet (ERA- RSI) and the Social Skills Scale (EHS) instruments, which met the validity and reliability criteria. The main results showed a significance of less than .05 (p=<.05) and a coefficient of -.698, which allowed us to conclude that there is a moderate negative correlation between addiction to social networks and the social skills of the students of an Educational Institution of Ancón, Lima 2022

Addiction · Educational institution · Institution · Sample (material · Scale (ratio · Social media · Social skills · The Internet · Educational Methods and Psychological Studies · Social Skills and Education · Various Academic Research Studies