Internet use and social anxiety
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Information and communication technologies are a key element in the evolution of society and, therefore, in training in university studies, digital immersion is increasingly necessary for possible continuity in studies. The requirement for the mastery of digital competence, therefore, is essential for education and today’s society, which can lead to psychoeducational problems of different kinds such as social anxiety, that is, fear of the scrutiny of others. Given this framework, the present study was designed to identify statistically significant differences in social anxiety between students who use the internet the most versus students who useit less. Thesampleconsisted of 3.060 university participants aged between 19 and 24 years. Digital competences were analyzed using the variable internet use of the Ikanos Test and social anxiety that was evaluated through the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS-A). The statistical analysis used was the analysis of variance (ANOVA) and the logistic regression by steps forward using the Wald statistic, providing as results that the Odd Ratio (OR) varied between .93 and .98. In conclusion, students who indicated that they used the Internet occasionally had higher scores in social anxiety than their peers who used it daily.
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