Alberto Urueña
Biographic Data
| ID | 6542791 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alberto Urueña |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alberto |
| FAMILY NAME | Urueña |
| SIGNATURE | URUEÑA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1299-2380 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Bidirectional Relationships between Social Pressure in Digital Contexts, Depression, and Social Support over Time
Objective: As societies become increasingly digitalized, users engage in digital communication flows and participate actively and responsively while managing the demands of constant connectivity. This overwhelming volume of communication can lead to social pressure, which has been associated with compulsive digital behavior and may negatively affect psychological and social adjustment. This study aimed at investigating the longitudinal and bidire…
Democracy Dysfunctions and Citizens’ Digital Agency in Highly Contaminated Digital Information Ecosystems
Social media platforms have been recognized as significant contributors to the dissemination of polarizing content, the spread of disinformation, and the proliferation of far-right populist discourse. While certain political actors deliberately seek to disseminate disinformation, a more nuanced understanding is necessary to elucidate why users consume and accept this biased content. Using data from over 120,000 participants across five European a…
How to keep your information secure? Toward a better understanding of users security behavior
Use of computers and the Internet is an integral part of our lives, with business becoming more digital. As a result, individuals are using their home computers to perform diverse tasks and to store sensitive data. This paper investigates the relative efficacy of two strategies to protect home computers from security threats: security tools and security activities. For the analysis, we collected data from over 1900 individuals in Spain, following…
Use of smartphone apps for mobile communication and social digital pressure
The rapid growth in the availability of communication apps with mobile connectivity has contributed to an overabundant digital environment in the daily lives of individuals. Users of these communication apps are at risk of experiencing social digital pressure (SDP), which has been shown to be an important antecedent of smartphone addiction. These ideas, advanced by communication theorists, have not yet found clear empirical support. In this study…
Smartphone Addiction and Cybercrime Victimization in the Context of Lifestyles Routine Activities and Self-Control Theories
(1) Background: This paper combines lifestyle-routine activities (L-RAT) and self-control (SCT) theories along with the literature on smartphone addiction in a joint model that addresses the multiple vulnerabilities that make the smartphone user a potential victim of cybercrime. This model, which we call the dual vulnerability model of cybercrime victimization, was subjected to empirical testing on a nationally representative sample of smartphone…
Smartphone Addiction, Social Support, and Cybercrime Victimization
In recent decades, criminological theories have identified a set of vulnerabilities in potential victims that seek to explain their victimization. When it comes to explaining cybercrime victimization, however, the important role that addiction to the vulnerabilities associated with technological devices can play has tended to be overlooked. In this paper we empirically link smartphone addiction, social support, and cyberfraud victimization in a n…
Examining the Empirical Links Between Digital Social Pressure, Personality, Psychological Distress, Social Support, Users’ Residential Living Conditions, and Smartphone Addiction
Based on the recent scientific literature on the social ecology of smartphone addiction, we have examined the empirical relationship between social digital pressure (SDP) and smartphone addiction by also looking at the influence of users’ personalities, psychological distress, social support, and residential social living conditions on this addiction. The analyses were carried out on a nationally representative sample of 2,820 Spanish smartphone …
The digital divide in light of sustainable development
Smartphone Addiction and Social Support
For some years now, scholars have been exploring some of the negative consequences for the psychosocial well-being of users that the rapid incorporation of smartphones into our lives has caused. Most of the empirical studies to date are cross-sectional and are carried out with participants from convenience samples, which has been a limitation in this field. In this study, we evaluated the evolution over three years of smartphone addiction and soc…
Technological Addiction in Context
After more than a decade of research on smartphone addiction, there is currently empirical evidence on the main sociodemographic, psychological, and psychosocial correlates of this type of behavioral addiction. However, research in this field has not yet paid sufficient attention to the influence that the social context may have on smartphone addiction, an aspect that has been frequently pointed out by investigations on both substance and behavio…
Smartphone addiction
Smartphone use has brought convenience to users, although its excessive use and addiction might also have negative consequences. Using a representative sample of 526 smartphone users in Spain, the present study analyzes smartphone extensive use and addiction as well as its relationship to smartphone harm. Self-reported and scanned data were obtained from users and their smartphones. Multivariate linear regression analyses showed that higher level…
Socially Connected but Still Isolated
Recent literature has suggested that smartphone addiction is negatively associated with users’ psychosocial well-being. Much of the research on this subject, however, is of a correlational nature, which has been pointed out as an important limitation that does not allow distinguishing the antecedents of the consequences. In this study, 416 smartphone users were followed for 1 year (three waves separated by 6 months each) to assess the relationshi…
My computer is infected
Literature has traditionally shown the potentially harmful consequences of risk-taking in a variety of domains. Less scholarly attention, however, has been directed to the study of risk-taking in the computer use domain. Using scanned data from 1902 computers, we sought to analyze the potentially harmful consequences that sensation-seeking and computer use risk perceptions and attitudes had on users’ computer vulnerability. Results of the study i…
Socially Connected but Still Isolated
Recent literature has suggested that smartphone addiction is negatively associated with users’ psychosocial well-being. Much of the research on this subject, however, is of a correlational nature, which has been pointed out as an important limitation that does not allow distinguishing the antecedents of the consequences. In this study, 416 smartphone users were followed for 1 year (three waves separated by 6 months each) to assess the relationshi…
Technological Addiction in Context
After more than a decade of research on smartphone addiction, there is currently empirical evidence on the main sociodemographic, psychological, and psychosocial correlates of this type of behavioral addiction. However, research in this field has not yet paid sufficient attention to the influence that the social context may have on smartphone addiction, an aspect that has been frequently pointed out by investigations on both substance and behavio…
My computer is infected
Literature has traditionally shown the potentially harmful consequences of risk-taking in a variety of domains. Less scholarly attention, however, has been directed to the study of risk-taking in the computer use domain. Using scanned data from 1902 computers, we sought to analyze the potentially harmful consequences that sensation-seeking and computer use risk perceptions and attitudes had on users’ computer vulnerability. Results of the study i…
Examining the Empirical Links Between Digital Social Pressure, Personality, Psychological Distress, Social Support, Users’ Residential Living Conditions, and Smartphone Addiction
Based on the recent scientific literature on the social ecology of smartphone addiction, we have examined the empirical relationship between social digital pressure (SDP) and smartphone addiction by also looking at the influence of users’ personalities, psychological distress, social support, and residential social living conditions on this addiction. The analyses were carried out on a nationally representative sample of 2,820 Spanish smartphone …
My computer is infected
Literature has traditionally shown the potentially harmful consequences of risk-taking in a variety of domains. Less scholarly attention, however, has been directed to the study of risk-taking in the computer use domain. Using scanned data from 1902 computers, we sought to analyze the potentially harmful consequences that sensation-seeking and computer use risk perceptions and attitudes had on users’ computer vulnerability. Results of the study i…
Smartphone addiction
Smartphone use has brought convenience to users, although its excessive use and addiction might also have negative consequences. Using a representative sample of 526 smartphone users in Spain, the present study analyzes smartphone extensive use and addiction as well as its relationship to smartphone harm. Self-reported and scanned data were obtained from users and their smartphones. Multivariate linear regression analyses showed that higher level…
Socially Connected but Still Isolated
Recent literature has suggested that smartphone addiction is negatively associated with users’ psychosocial well-being. Much of the research on this subject, however, is of a correlational nature, which has been pointed out as an important limitation that does not allow distinguishing the antecedents of the consequences. In this study, 416 smartphone users were followed for 1 year (three waves separated by 6 months each) to assess the relationshi…
Smartphone Addiction and Social Support
For some years now, scholars have been exploring some of the negative consequences for the psychosocial well-being of users that the rapid incorporation of smartphones into our lives has caused. Most of the empirical studies to date are cross-sectional and are carried out with participants from convenience samples, which has been a limitation in this field. In this study, we evaluated the evolution over three years of smartphone addiction and soc…
Technological Addiction in Context
After more than a decade of research on smartphone addiction, there is currently empirical evidence on the main sociodemographic, psychological, and psychosocial correlates of this type of behavioral addiction. However, research in this field has not yet paid sufficient attention to the influence that the social context may have on smartphone addiction, an aspect that has been frequently pointed out by investigations on both substance and behavio…
The digital divide in light of sustainable development
Smartphone Addiction and Cybercrime Victimization in the Context of Lifestyles Routine Activities and Self-Control Theories
(1) Background: This paper combines lifestyle-routine activities (L-RAT) and self-control (SCT) theories along with the literature on smartphone addiction in a joint model that addresses the multiple vulnerabilities that make the smartphone user a potential victim of cybercrime. This model, which we call the dual vulnerability model of cybercrime victimization, was subjected to empirical testing on a nationally representative sample of smartphone…
Smartphone Addiction, Social Support, and Cybercrime Victimization
In recent decades, criminological theories have identified a set of vulnerabilities in potential victims that seek to explain their victimization. When it comes to explaining cybercrime victimization, however, the important role that addiction to the vulnerabilities associated with technological devices can play has tended to be overlooked. In this paper we empirically link smartphone addiction, social support, and cyberfraud victimization in a n…
Examining the Empirical Links Between Digital Social Pressure, Personality, Psychological Distress, Social Support, Users’ Residential Living Conditions, and Smartphone Addiction
Based on the recent scientific literature on the social ecology of smartphone addiction, we have examined the empirical relationship between social digital pressure (SDP) and smartphone addiction by also looking at the influence of users’ personalities, psychological distress, social support, and residential social living conditions on this addiction. The analyses were carried out on a nationally representative sample of 2,820 Spanish smartphone …
Use of smartphone apps for mobile communication and social digital pressure
The rapid growth in the availability of communication apps with mobile connectivity has contributed to an overabundant digital environment in the daily lives of individuals. Users of these communication apps are at risk of experiencing social digital pressure (SDP), which has been shown to be an important antecedent of smartphone addiction. These ideas, advanced by communication theorists, have not yet found clear empirical support. In this study…
How to keep your information secure? Toward a better understanding of users security behavior
Use of computers and the Internet is an integral part of our lives, with business becoming more digital. As a result, individuals are using their home computers to perform diverse tasks and to store sensitive data. This paper investigates the relative efficacy of two strategies to protect home computers from security threats: security tools and security activities. For the analysis, we collected data from over 1900 individuals in Spain, following…
The Bidirectional Relationships between Social Pressure in Digital Contexts, Depression, and Social Support over Time
Objective: As societies become increasingly digitalized, users engage in digital communication flows and participate actively and responsively while managing the demands of constant connectivity. This overwhelming volume of communication can lead to social pressure, which has been associated with compulsive digital behavior and may negatively affect psychological and social adjustment. This study aimed at investigating the longitudinal and bidire…
Democracy Dysfunctions and Citizens’ Digital Agency in Highly Contaminated Digital Information Ecosystems
Social media platforms have been recognized as significant contributors to the dissemination of polarizing content, the spread of disinformation, and the proliferation of far-right populist discourse. While certain political actors deliberately seek to disseminate disinformation, a more nuanced understanding is necessary to elucidate why users consume and accept this biased content. Using data from over 120,000 participants across five European a…
Psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Addiction (7 works) · Smartphone addiction (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Internet privacy (5 works) · Psychosocial (5 works)