Smartphone Addiction, Social Support, and Cybercrime Victimization: A Discrete Survival and Growth Mixture Model
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 dev...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) |
| Repositorio: | O2, repositorio institucional de la UOC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:openaccess.uoc.edu:10609/145426 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10609/145426 https://doi.org/10.5093/pi2022a3 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | cybercrime victimization latent growth mixture modeling smartphone addiction social support survival curves victimización por ciberdelincuencia modelos de mixtura de crecimiento latente adicción a los teléfonos inteligentes apoyo social curvas de supervivencia victimització per ciberdelincuencia adicció als teléfons intel·ligents recolzament social curves de supervivencia models de mixtura de creixement latent computer crimes delictes informàtics delitos informáticos |
| Sumario: | 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 nationally representative sample of 716 smartphone users followed for three years. The results of discrete survival and growth mixture models suggest that the probability of cyberfraud victimization is lower among users with a decrease in smartphone addiction and an increase in social support over the three years. These results allow us to suggest new avenues in the study of cybercrime victimization, with special emphasis on the psychosocial consequences that the deregulated use of these technological devices may entail. |
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