Responses from 397 respondents were analysed to explore the attitudes of young people towards data security issues for mobile devices. Results from the comparative analysis found that there were significant differences in data security risk concerns across ethnic groups. Those who reported extrovert personalities tend to take more risk in data security issues. In addition, young people who were ’technology savvy’ were less likely to expose themselves to risk to data security issues through the use of free wifi and access of installed applications.
| Construct | Cites | Category | Questions given? | Content validity | Pretests | Response type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Information Literacy | NEW | no | no | pilot | various | ||
| Data Security | NEW | no | no | pilot | various | ||
| Experience towards Mobile Phone Usage | NEW | no | no | pilot | various | ||
| Communication & Personality | Eysenck, 1975 | no | no | pilot | various |
Balbir S. Barn, Ravinder Barn, and Jo-Pei Tan. Young people and smart phones: An empirical study on information security. In System Sciences (HICSS), 2014 47th Hawaii International Conference On, 4504–4514. IEEE, 2014.
@inproceedings{barn_young_2014,
author = {Barn, Balbir S. and Barn, Ravinder and Tan, Jo-Pei},
booktitle = {System {{Sciences}} ({{HICSS}}), 2014 47th {{Hawaii International Conference}} On},
pages = {4504--4514},
publisher = {{IEEE}},
shorttitle = {Young People and Smart Phones},
title = {Young People and Smart Phones: {{An}} Empirical Study on Information Security},
year = {2014}
}