David de Segovia Vicente
Senior researcher at the research group for Media, Innovation and Contemporary Technologies, Department of Communication Sciences, Ghent University.
Digital Well-being
Social Media Effects
Ecological Momentary Assessment
Quantitative Research Methods
David de Segovia Vicente currently works on the Digiwork project, which investigates the intersection between digital well-being and work-life balance in an increasingly digitalized society.
In his research, David combines smartphone log-data with ecological momentary assessments (EMA) to investigate how people’s psychological states shape, and are shaped by, their digital media use. For example, his work examines how mindless scrolling can lead to feelings of guilt, or how individuals use smartphones and social media as tools for emotion regulation.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Complutense University of Madrid (2017) and a Master’s degree in Behavioural Science Research from Radboud University (2020). In September 2025, he obtained his PhD at Ghent University with a dissertation titled “Being within the feed: Rethinking social media as an Actor, a Channel, and a Tool.” His doctoral research explored multiple different pathways through which smartphone-based social media use interacts with emotional states linked to well-being and aimed to conceptualize and organize these pathways within a coherent framework.
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