Uso de internet, consumo de alcohol y funcionalidad

Family is an important psychosocial factor to avoid or favor both the consumption of alcohol and the problematic use of the Internet in adolescents, for which a study was carried out that analyzes the relationship between these three variables in registered students of high school in the state of Veracruz. Method. Study with a quantitative, transversal, descriptive and correlational approach, using a stratified simple random sample that allowed the participation of 252 adolescents, to whom the following tests were applied: Internet Addiction Test, Alcohol AUDIT and APGAR. Results. Women show more problematic use (39.8%) that addictive (5.8%) use of the Internet; alcohol consumption with risk affects to 4.4% of participants while the harmful to 1.2% and 15.4% turned out with low family functionality. There is a relation between Internet use and alcohol consumption r=.181 (p = .0001), and between Internet use and family functionality r = -.281 (p = .0001), what matches with the results in other countries. One of the findings of this research was that women showed greater use of the Internet and alcohol consumption, who also report greater prop