COORDINATOR
He has a degree and PhD in Psychology from the University of Granada (UGR). Master in Psychology of Social Intervention and Master in Research and Advances in Preventive Medicine and Public Health by the same University. He has obtained four research grants/contracts in public calls. He is accredited as a university professor by the ANECA (Level I), although he currently holds the position of principal investigator at the Institute of Transfer and Research (ITEI) at the International University of La Rioja (UNIR). He is principal investigator of the Cyberpsychology research group. Author of more than 100 publications, most of them in JCR journals with two sexenios of research (2007-2014/2015-2020). Collaborating researcher in numerous research projects, two of them international, and principal investigator in eight others. Four of them with public funds in competitive calls (State Program for R&D&I Oriented to the challenges of Society; Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities; Ministry of Consumption; Knowledge Generation Projects). In general, it has collaborated with +300 schools and evaluated +110,000 students in different national and international projects and initiatives. His area of research has focused on bullying and Internet risks in children and adolescents.
In the field of psycho-educational prevention of Internet risks, it collaborates with more than 100 schools in Spain where the Multi-risk Internet Prevention Program (www.programasafety.net) and the Internet Dysfunctional Risks Prevention Project (www.programadominus.net) are applied in many of them. He is currently developing a version of a training program in parental mediation for families (Project HESTIA).
He has been director of secretariat in the Vice-rectorate of Students at the University of Granada and Coordinator of the Department of Educational Psychology and Psychobiology (both undergraduate and postgraduate). Associate Editor of several JCR journals. He has obtained almost a dozen transfer contracts and is a disseminator in numerous media providing transfer to the research carried out by the Research Group (RTVE, Cadena SER, Cadena COPE, El País, ABC, El Mundo, RTPA, RNE, etc.).
Concerns about parenting have traditionally been linked to concepts such as attachment parenting. In this way, parenting styles or parenting practices have been the object of interest both in the educational field and in research. In contrast to this traditional or offline parenting, the popularisation of the Internet in the home has added a new context: the online world. In this way, new theoretical paradigms point to the need to co-construct reality in such a way that the online is imbricated in the identity and socialisation of young people in the offline context. In this way, classical parenting is still present in the socialisation of young people, but a new layer with its own structure and entity is added, which allows us to speak of online parenting. The different constructs associated with these parenting practices in the online context can be encompassed under the umbrella of online parental mediation. This can be defined as the effort of parents to encourage positive uses of technologies and to counteract possible risks or negative effects. This is especially important for those born since 2010 (Generation Alpha), who are currently starting Compulsory Secondary Education and many of them are in Primary Education.
In recent years, it has become clear that the use of some of these online parental mediation strategies (enabling, restrictive, co-use, etc.) is a protective factor against problems derived from the use of technologies. This symposium aims to address aspects on the measurement and types of online parental mediation, its relationship with Internet risks in adolescents, as well as the congruence between the information reported by families and that perceived by children and its stability over time.