Laura Vozmediano

ORCID: 0000-0003-3239-8327
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Research Areas
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Criminal Justice and Penology
  • Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Place Attachment and Urban Studies
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Social Issues and Policies in Latin America
  • Latin American Urban Studies
  • Sports and Physical Education Studies
  • Risk Perception and Management
  • Traffic and Road Safety
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
  • Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism Studies
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • Higher Education Teaching and Evaluation
  • E-Learning and Knowledge Management
  • Safety Warnings and Signage
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Social Sciences and Policies
  • Educational Outcomes and Influences
  • Environmental Sustainability in Business

University of the Basque Country
2015-2024

University of Manchester
2019

Applus+ IDIADA (Spain)
2017

Centro Nacional de Información Geográfica
2006

Institute of Criminology
2006

Over recent decades, the study of psychological restoration has attracted a considerable amount interest within and without boundaries environmental psychology, with most work focused on analyzing in natural contexts. However, little attention been paid to (possible) restorative potential urban settings, as they have usually expected not be present some elements that might imply negative health outcomes short long term. In this field study, our aim was evaluate squares. To end, we measured...

10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02093 article EN cc-by Frontiers in Psychology 2017-12-07

Introduction One of the major challenges for higher education institutions in last decade has been (and will continue to be) integration sustainability into their curricula and development competences students. Education Sustainability (ES) can help prepare students meet making societies more sustainable. However, as a first step toward this goal, teachers need incorporate ES teaching. In regard, research aimed analyze if members teaching staff have started and, so, which...

10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1158636 article EN cc-by Frontiers in Psychology 2023-07-03

Trait emotional intelligence (TEI) has been shown to have predictive capacity for certain dimensions of adaptation, such as life satisfaction and affectivity. The Meta Mood Scale (TMMS), based on the EI ability model, subjective well‐being through its three factors (attention, clarity, repair), but little is known about mediating role played by these dimensions, both among themselves in relation other variables. aim present study was analyse direct indirect relationships between TMMS using...

10.1111/ajpy.12065 article EN Australian Journal of Psychology 2014-07-07

Previous research on the relationships between age, sex, ethnic group or previous victimization experience and fear of crime is controversial, as inconsistent results have been obtained, many them attributable to a lack methodological conceptual consensus. We propose study self-protective behaviours motivated by useful alternative that pays attention consequences for urban quality life. A survey with representative sample residents in major city Spain provides evidence about sex age...

10.1177/1477370812454369 article EN European Journal of Criminology 2012-11-01

Over the past few decades, a significant volume of research has been dedicated to study psychological restoration within and outside field Environmental Psychology. Following period during which this focused on gathering evidence in favour restorative potential nature, notion urban settings is beginning emerge as new area interest, with implications for improvement quality life. This article presents an adaptation two scales be used specific (squares, streets or boulevards), could valuable...

10.1080/21711976.2017.1311073 article EN PsyEcology Bilingual Journal of Environmental Psychology 2017-04-07

This study addresses the heightened fear of crime experienced by women, which often leads to adoption self-protective behaviors that can negatively impact their quality life. Focusing on a hot-spot in city Donostia-San Sebastián undergoing redesign, research is conducted two phases: pre-intervention and post-intervention. Utilizing mixed-methods approach, employs systematic observation using SUE tool, surveys, Safety Walks gather data. Findings indicate high prevalence frequency among female...

10.31235/osf.io/ztrkj preprint EN 2024-07-11

The study of psychological restoration in urban settings has undergone significant growth recent years. aim this paper is to develop an instrument for the objective evaluation restorative potential public spaces. Perceived scales and a large number systematic social observation instruments were reviewed, selecting items that might be suitable aims adding other designed ad hoc. resulting tool made up 183 items, grouped into 12 domains. final format was used by group four evaluators total six...

10.1080/21711976.2019.1579472 article EN PsyEcology Bilingual Journal of Environmental Psychology 2019-04-23

En el presente trabajo se exploran las posibilidades de los Sistemas Información Geográfica (SIG) para estudio aspectos espaciales relacionados con miedo al delito en contextos urbanos, y presenta un caso concreto: del Donostia­San Sebastián. A partir encuestas a una muestra residentes, estudió la distribución objetivo ciudad, datos judiciales, tres escenarios urbanos distintos. Con estos construyeron mapas criminalidad comprobando que percepción subjetiva no era coincidente espacio...

10.46381/reic.v4i0.27 article ES cc-by-nc Revista Española de Investigación Criminológica 2006-05-01

Although evidence regarding the journey-to-crime in juvenile offenders is available for some areas of world, little known about their mobility patterns Southern Europe. Variables such as prosocial facilities, transport stations, or socioeconomic backdrop have been proved to influence traveled distance. Therefore, we aimed confirm previous findings literature using data provided by Juvenile Justice Department Basque Country (Spain). results are line with those studies, emphasizing relevance...

10.1177/0011128720916141 article EN Crime & Delinquency 2020-04-26

Where strategies to reduce and recycle urban solid waste are insufficient, incineration is proposed as second-best management. Waste-to-energy facilities often raise remarkable public controversy, which the Not-In-My-Backyard effect does not explain sufficiently. Heterogeneous concerns lead diverse risk perception profiles that standard psychometric scales cannot uncover. We explore this diversity of by analyzing perceptions about a recently built waste-to-energy facility in Gipuzkoa...

10.1080/13669877.2023.2259402 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Journal of Risk Research 2023-10-03
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