Capa-Luque Walter, Mayorga-Falcón Luz Elizabeth, Barboza-Navarro Evelyn, Martínez-Portillo Armando, Pardavé-Livia Yovana, Hervias-Guerra Edmundo, Bazán-Ramírez Aldo, Bello-Vidal Catalina
Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal, San Miguel, Lima Región, Peru.
Escuela de Psicología, Universidad Nacional Jose María Arguedas, Andahuaylas, Apurimac, Peru.
F1000Res. 2025 Jan 27;13:1010. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.154696.1. eCollection 2024.
Digital addictions are a major problem worldwide, which has increased considerably during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this scenario, two important impact factors to explain this problem are stress and anxiety because of COVID-19. The objective of this research was to determine the impact of distress and anxiety due to COVID-19 on digital addictions.
cross-sectional, explanatory study. A total of 802 students from public and private universities residing in the city of Lima and Callao (Peru), with a mean age of 21.68 (SD = 3.11), selected by convenience sampling, participated in the study. The MULTICAGE CAD-4 questionnaire, the distress scale, and the anxiety scale by COVID-19 were applied.
two models examined with structural equation modeling showed good fit indices (CFI and TLI > .95, RMSEA and SRMR < .06). The first model shows that the latent variables distress and anxiety due to COVID-19 have direct effects on digital addictions as a general construct (R = 22%). The second model shows that the exogenous latent variables (stress and anxiety) have direct effects of different magnitudes on each digital technology, so the variance explained on smartphone addiction was higher (R = 25%) with respect to internet (R = 19%) and video game addiction (R = 6%). It was also found that for every male, there are two females with high levels of distress and anxiety. Regarding the problematic use of smartphones and internet, there is a prevalence of 40% regardless of sex; but as for the problematic use of video games, there is a marked difference between males (18.8%) and females (2.7%).
the distress and anxiety caused by COVID-19 have a direct impact in aggravating digital addictions.
数字成瘾是一个全球性的重大问题，在新冠疫情期间显著增加。在这种情况下，因新冠疫情导致的压力和焦虑是解释这一问题的两个重要影响因素。本研究的目的是确定新冠疫情导致的痛苦和焦虑对数字成瘾的影响。
横断面解释性研究。通过便利抽样，选取了居住在利马和卡亚俄市（秘鲁）的802名公立和私立大学学生参与研究，平均年龄为21.68岁（标准差=3.11）。应用了MULTICAGE CAD - 4问卷、痛苦量表和新冠疫情焦虑量表。
用结构方程模型检验的两个模型显示出良好的拟合指数（CFI和TLI>.95，RMSEA和SRMR<.06）。第一个模型表明，作为一个总体结构，新冠疫情导致的潜在变量痛苦和焦虑对数字成瘾有直接影响（R = 22%）。第二个模型表明，外生潜在变量（压力和焦虑）对每种数字技术有不同程度的直接影响，因此智能手机成瘾的解释方差更高（R = 25%），而互联网成瘾（R = 19%）和电子游戏成瘾（R = 6%）的解释方差较低。还发现，每有一名男性，就有两名女性存在高水平的痛苦和焦虑。关于智能手机和互联网的问题使用，无论性别，患病率均为40%；但对于电子游戏的问题使用，男性（18.8%）和女性（2.7%）之间存在显著差异。
新冠疫情导致的痛苦和焦虑对加剧数字成瘾有直接影响。
