Autoestima y motivación en el uso de Facebook en adultos de 18 a 37 años de Lima Metropolitana

Abstract

Understand the relationship between self-esteem and Facebook usage motivation in adults from 18 to 37 years of Lima city. The sample consists of 200 participants, 66 men and 134 women aged between 18 to 37 (media = 27.9; DE = 4.044). They replied an online questionnaire about personal aspects of their life, completed the Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale (1965), and the Fu-Yuan Hong and Su-Lin Chiu Facebook usage motivation Scale (2014), all of them sent online through Typeform. The main finding of the study is that, depending on the participant’s age, the relationship between the level of self-esteem and other variable can change.