Overview
- Unicef España, USC, Red.es and the computer engineering council released a macrostudy of roughly 93,000–100,000 students, billed as the largest of its kind in Spain.
- Compared with 2021, risky behaviors fell by about 10 percentage points, including sexting, accepting unknown contacts, receiving sexual proposals from adults and meeting people known only online.
- Digital immersion remains deep: average first smartphone access is around 11 years, 44.3% bring phones to school, and 41.2% sleep with a phone in their room.
- Exposure to sexual content is widespread, with about 30% reporting pornography consumption, an average first exposure at 11.5 years and 73% saying access is easy.
- Risks concentrate with nighttime phone use and correlate with poorer mental health: bed phone users face roughly double rates of porn consumption and predator contact, while 14.2% report emotional malaise, 13.1% depressive symptoms, 7.4% elevated suicide risk and 6.5% a prior attempt.