[Use and abuse of the Internet in university students].
OBJECTIVE
To adapt a questionnaire for assessing the use and abuse of Internet, as well as the relationship between this resource and psychosocial profile in a group of university students.


METHODS
391 students filled out the questionnaires; 26.1% were men and 73.9% were women, with a mean age of 19.59 years (DT = +/- 2.83; Range: 18-47 years). We used a sociodemographic questionnaire, Social skills questionnaire (Caballo, 1993, EMES-C and EMES-M), Personality questionnaire (E.P.I., Eysenck and Eysenck, 1982), and an Internet and Use and Abuse of Internet questionnaire (adapted from Bruner, 1997, Suler, 1996 and Young, 1996a, Garcia del Castillo y Terol, 2007).


RESULTS
73.91 % of students connect for an average of 84.81 minutes (DT = +/- 2.05) per week. Except for one subscale of the Internet use and abuse questionnaire, all the subscales showed reliability coefficients > or = . 70 and mean scores lower than the average of the score range. Internet use and abuse showed a relationship with psychosocial variables such as cognitive social skills (r =.14; p =.016) and neuroticism (r =.-13, p =.01).
Garcia Del Castillo
Jose Antonio
JA
Catedrático de Escuela Universitaria del Departamento de Psicología de la Salud de la Universidad Miguel Hernández. jagr@umh.es
Terol
Maria Del Carmen
Mdel C
Nieto
Maximiliano
M
Lledo
Ana
A
Sanchez
Salvador
S
Martin-Aragon
Maite
M
Sitges
Esther
E
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D016739:Behavior, Addictive / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D013334:Students; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities