Factores de riesgo psicosociales en adolescentes debido al uso excesivo de los videojuegos en Villa del Rosario.

Abstract

The adolescence is a period that brings with it multiple physical, psychological and social changes, these changes can be influenced by the environment, such is the caseof technology, which accompanies young people from the first stages of their life, that is why, that the objective of this work is to identify the psychosocial risk factors that occur due to the excessive use of video games, in order to describe these characteristics found in the adolescents of Villa del Rosario. This research is qualitative, with a descriptive design taking into account three instruments for collecting information, which are the semi-structured interview, focus group and non-participant observation, where through content analysis by categories, it is obtained that The excessive use of video games does represent for the adolescent the acquisition of psychosocial risks, thus affecting their abilities and social and family relationships, the good development of their personality and finally, multiple physical consequences due to the little implementation of healthy habits of lifetime.