Addiction in social networks and academic procrastination in students of the professional nursing school of a private university, Huancayo

Abstract

Objective: determine the relationship between addiction to social networks and academic procrastination in students of the professional nursing school of the Roosevelt Private University of Huancayo, 2023. Material and Methods: Basic correlational design study. For variable correlations, Spearman's correlation coefficient was used. Results: Regarding addiction to social networks, it is observed that it stands out with a moderate level of 204 students, which represents 62.8%, followed by 118 (36.3%) students with a low level of addiction and only 3 (0.9%) students. with a high level of addiction to social networks. While academic procrastination is observed to highlight 318 students with a moderate level of academic procrastination, which represents 97.8%, followed by 4 (1.2%) students with a high level of procrastination and 3 (0.9%) students with a low level. The contracting of hypotheses asserts according to p-value (sig.= 0.000) that there is a significant relationship between addiction to social networks and academic procrastination in sampled students; and regarding the specific hypotheses, it was proven that there is a low and significant direct relationship between obsession with social networks (p-value = 0.003, rho = 0.167, lack of personal control in the use of social networks (p-value = 0.000, rho = 0.195) and excessive use of social networks (p-value = 0.000, rho = 0.196) with academic procrastination in students of the study. Conclusions: There is a significant relationship between addiction to social networks and academic procrastination.