Spaniards suffer from cybersight


Spaniards suffer from cybersight


77% of Spaniards suffer high levels of stress due to the news about data leaks and the pressure to manage multiple online accounts, being also the Spaniards the Europeans who suffer the most. A new evil known as cyberstress.


"We spent the day receiving a high amount of stimuli, such as images, videos, texts or music, through our mobile devices. Emails, publications on our social networks, both our own and those of others, invitations to WhatsApp events or messages, either in groups or individuals, come in large quantities every day and make us want to have a proper social image, want to feel accepted by others and want to give a satisfactory response to these digital stimuli, in order to safeguard our public identity, "says Horten Soler, an educational psychologist specializing in new technologies.

77% of Spaniards admit to being stressed by the news that is published on data leaks, and the same percentage of them arms that the amount of passwords they have to administer causes unnecessary stress, according to a study carried out among one thousand Spanish users by Kaspersky Lab. At higher levels of stress, the levels of trust in organizations and in technology to protect data diminish.

Due to the current context, 58% of Spanish users expect to encounter a cybersecurity problem in the next twelve months. In fact, more than half admit to having been the victim of a problem of this type in the last five years.

«All this can cause a series of consequences such as irritability, anxiety and depression (I feel successful in my social networks or not), problems of relationship with others, eating disorders (I want to like others with my photos) , self-destructive behaviors and even heart attacks, "says Soler.

Social networks and mobile payment represent the technologies that the Spanish least trust (44% and 30%, respectively). On the other hand, GPS tracking and health and music monitoring applications are the most reliable, with 10% of those interviewed arming that they would not trust their data.

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