Multiple Sources for Security: Seeking Online Safety Information and their Influence on Coping Self-efficacy and Protection Behavior Habits

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dc.contributor.author Shillair, Ruth
dc.contributor.author Meng, Jingbo
dc.date.accessioned 2016-12-29T01:52:01Z
dc.date.available 2016-12-29T01:52:01Z
dc.date.issued 2017-01-04
dc.description.abstract Internet users face threats of increasing complexity and severity. To protect themselves they rely on sources for online safety information. These sources may either build up, or undermine, the coping self-efficacy and motivation needed to protect oneself. A survey of 800 subjects asked about which sources they relied on for information about online safety: media, work, school, friends and family, and specialized web sites. Individuals who said they had no comprehensive source for information reported the lowest levels of both coping self-efficacy (b= -0.609, p< 0.001) and protection habit strength (b= -0.900, p< 0.001). On the other hand, those who had an affiliation of school, work and specialized web sites had a positive relationship with both coping self-efficacy (b= 0.517, p< 0.05) and protection habit strength (b= 0.692, p< 0.05). Results suggest that some information affiliation networks are correlated with higher coping self-efficacy and stronger protection habits.
dc.format.extent 10 pages
dc.identifier.doi 10.24251/HICSS.2017.604
dc.identifier.isbn 978-0-9981331-0-2
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/41766
dc.language.iso eng
dc.relation.ispartof Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rights Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject Coping self-efficacy
dc.subject Cybersecurity
dc.subject Online Safety
dc.subject Protection Motivation Theory
dc.subject Source networks of information
dc.title Multiple Sources for Security: Seeking Online Safety Information and their Influence on Coping Self-efficacy and Protection Behavior Habits
dc.type Conference Paper
dc.type.dcmi Text
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