Social network addiction and academic procrastination in Peruvian adolescents in times of coronavirus Covid-19

Abstract

The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between social network addiction and academic procrastination in times of coronavirus (COVID-19) in regular basic education (RBE) students of a public educational institution (IE) in Peru. The population consisted of 1,255 students of both sexes, between 12 and 17 years of age, and non-probabilistic, convenience-induced sampling was used. The SPSS V.25 program was used for statistical analysis; also, two questionnaires with a validity and reliability greater than 90 were applied. However, Somers' Gamma and D coefficients were also used to detect the degree and direction of association. The results show a high and highly significant correlation between social network addiction and academic procrastination (r=0.710; p=0.01). As described above, addiction has had an increase in confinement times corresponding to increased procrastination.