Conference paper
What motivates teenagers to comply with security guidelines?
Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), Vol.34
30th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (Perth, Western Australia, 09/12/2019–11/12/2019)
2019
Abstract
We examined factors that inspire teenagers to comply with cyber security guidelines. We used protection motivation theory (PMT), and extended the model to include personal norms and normative beliefs. For teenage computer users, believing they are susceptible to hacking or that the consequences of being hacked would be severe, had no bearing on their password choices. This is an interesting finding highlighting a potential difference between adults and teenagers. We found personal norms is a better predictor of teenagers’ security behaviour than PMT’s threat perceptions. This is an important finding which opens new avenues for future research, particularly in explaining teenagers’ security behaviour. This study contributes to finding ways to improve security practices at an early age. To the best of our knowledge this is the first password security study that applies PMT to examine security behaviours in teenagers.
Details
- Title
- What motivates teenagers to comply with security guidelines?
- Authors/Creators
- F. Mwagwabi (Author/Creator)H.J. Jiow (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), Vol.34
- Conference
- 30th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (Perth, Western Australia, 09/12/2019–11/12/2019)
- Identifiers
- 991005545391707891
- Copyright
- © 2019 Mwagwabi & Jiow
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Information Technology, Mathematics and Statistics
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference paper
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