Social media, habits, and their relationship with academic performance in university students

Quiñonez-Choquecota J.; Flores-Quispe M.Y.; Larico-Mamani C.J.; Flores-Condori E.; Condori-Calla D.H.; Flores-Quispe E.L.; Rimachi-Jimenez F. · Proceedings of the LACCEI international Multi-conference for Engineering, Education and Technology (2023)

Resumen

The objective of this research was to identify the forms of use of social media, lifestyle habits and identify whether there are links with academic performance. A structured self-administered questionnaire was applied to a sample of 588 undergraduate students from two public universities in Peru. To identify the relationships between variables, bivariate correlation analysis and hierarchical correlation analysis were performed. The results indicate that students are characterized by a lifestyle of few hours of sleep, very little time devoted to physical activity and considerable time devoted to social media for entertainment and non-academic purposes. Likewise, there is a direct relationship between the time spent on social media and the scale measuring excessive use of social media, which reveals that there are indications of excessive use of social media that would negatively affect academic performance.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional del Altiplano; Universidad Nacional de Moquegua; Universidad Nacional de Juliaca