Problemas Derivados del Uso de Internet y el Teléfono Móvil en Estudiantes Universitarios

Abstract

A study aimed to know the time, daily and weekly, that university students dedicate to the use of new technologies and to identify if its use becomes a problem in any sense. The sample is differentiated between university students of first and fourth year of the Faculty of Education of Albacete, in Spain. To carry out this descriptive study, the Questionnaire on Difficult Use of New Technologies (UPNT) has been used. The results indicate that students spend a lot of time on the use of the mobile phone and internet and that a high percentage of them have some problems for this reason. Younger students had a greater use of the Internet than the more advanced students. In the use of the mobile phone these differences are not appreciated. As a conclusion, it should be pointed out that more than half of the students dedicate more than five hours a day to the mobile phone. Also, 79.6% of these users indicate that they have had secondary behavioral problems due to its excessive use.