Abstract
It is increasingly common to upload photographs on the Internet of sports practices carried out. However, this behavior can be related to smartphone addiction, which has become a global problem. In turn, the intensive use of the Instagram social network has begun to be linked to addictive behaviors on mobile devices. The purposes of this paper were to analyze the Instagram usage habits of future primary school teachers, to determine the influence of sociodemographic factors on intensive Instagram use and smartphone addiction, and to determine the influence of intensive Instagram use on smartphone addiction. For this purpose, a transversal design was adopted where two standardized scales were applied to a sample of university students of the Primary Education Degree of the University of Granada, Spain (n = 385). The results showed that the type of image most uploaded to this social network was the selfie, well above sport. Furthermore, the structural equation model highlighted the significant influence of the intensive use of Instagram and smartphone addiction. Finally, the implications and findings of this study are discussed, highlighting the importance of generating healthy habits regarding the use of technology.
Highlights
The use of social networks is increasingly common among young people
In relation to the use of Instagram by future primary school teachers, the main types of images uploaded to the network (Figure 1) are: selfies (43.58%), related to uploading photographs of yourself, where the face and/or body are shown; traveling (20.25%), related to uploading photographs linked to trips made, where the user’s location is highlighted, for example with characteristic photographs of a place, monuments or cultural aspects; and food (17.1%), related to uploading photographs about food, showing dishes cooked by the user himself or the menu ordered in a restaurant
Relevant aspects of my life (2.05%), related to uploading photographs of something important for the user without a temporal sequence, it can be a specific moment in the life of the student but without implying a continuity in time about what they do in each moment, for example awarding a prize, a baptism, a wedding
Summary
The use of social networks is increasingly common among young people. The social networkInstagram is one of the social networks with the largest number of users. The ease of access to it and its operation based on the exchange of images has made it a great attraction for the youth population. This has led to it becoming one of the most widely used social networks in the world today by this sector of the population [1,2]. Instagram facilitates connectivity through a personal profile subscription system (so-called followers). In this way, an interaction is generated based on putting comments or “likes” the photo uploaded by another user. There are the “stories” which are images or videos published with a time limit of 24 h
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