The WhatsApp addiction in adolescents and its implication on social skills

Abstract

This article pretends to analyze how social skills develops through Information and Communication Technologies and if this addiction derives from the use of message services like Whatsapp could get the ability to increase social skills. It presents a case study which it sample is a group of students from ESO of different high schools from Madrid. Through the analysis of the obtained data it has been check that there is not direct relation between the elements wich were studied and so the results pointed to this effect. Among the causes of this fact is established the need to expand the sample to find all levels of addiction to Whatsapp and social skills.

Keywords

• habilidades sociales
• herramientas digitales
• comunicación
• adolescentes
• tecnologías de la información y la comunicación
• adicción