Vila Couñago, EstherRegueira, UxíaPernas Morado, Eulogio2026-02-052026-02-052020-11-04Vila-Couñago, E., Regueira, U. Pernas-Morado, E. (2020). The Safety Area of Digital Competence: A MixedMethod Study in Galician Primary Education Students. IEEE Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologias delAprendizaje, 15 (4). https://doi.org/10.1109/RITA.2020.30332181932-8540https://hdl.handle.net/10347/45697© 2020 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other worksThis article aims to evaluate the safety area of digital competence in pre-adolescents schooled in primary education as well as to understand the processes that interfere with the development of that area. A mixed research methodology was used through an exploratory sequential design with a qualitative phase (multiple case study) followed by quantitative phase (assessment test on safety). Particularly noteworthy among the results obtained is the influence of the family on the subcompetence of health protection as it is the one that worries families the most and where students score the highest on the test conductedengAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Digital competenceDigital divideDigital safetyMixed method research58 Pedagogíajournal article0.1109/RITA.2020.3033218open access