D'Arcy et al., 2014: Understanding Employee Responses to Stressful Information Security Requirements: A Coping Perspective

Topic:

Security-related stress (SRS) engenders an emotion-focused coping response in the form of moral disengagement from information security policy (ISP) violations, which in turn increases one’s susceptibility to this behavior. Our multidimensional view of SRS—comprised of security-related overload, complexity, and uncertainty—offers a new perspective on the workplace environment factors that foster noncompliant user behavior and inspire cognitive rationalizations of such behavior.

survey with four scenarios from guo_understanding_2011,siponen_neutralization_2010 and one new one; all in the appendix, 539 employees

Constructs in this publication:

Construct	Cites	Category	Questions given?	Content validity	Pretests	Response type	Notes
moral disengagement	Bandura et al., 1996		yes	no	none	7-point likert scale ranging from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree"
perceived sanctions	Hu et al., 2012, Siponen, 2010		yes	no	none	7-point likert scale ranging from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree"
intention	D'Arcy et al., 2009		yes	no	none	7-point likert scale ranging from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree"
Security-related stress	Ragu-Nathan et al., 2008		yes	no	none	7-point likert scale ranging from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree"
ethical orientation	Forsyth, 1980		yes	no	none	7-point likert scale ranging from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree"
social desirability bias	Hays et al., 1989		yes	no	none	7-point likert scale ranging from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree"

Citation:

John D'Arcy, Tejaswini Herath, and Mindy K Shoss. Understanding employee responses to stressful information security requirements: a coping perspective. Journal of Management Information Systems, 31(2):285–318, 2014. doi:10.2753/MIS0742-1222310210.

Bibtex

@article{darcy_understanding_2014,
 author = {D'Arcy, John and Herath, Tejaswini and Shoss, Mindy K},
 doi = {10.2753/MIS0742-1222310210},
 journal = {Journal of Management Information Systems},
 number = {2},
 pages = {285--318},
 title = {Understanding Employee Responses to Stressful Information Security Requirements: A Coping Perspective},
 volume = {31},
 year = {2014}
}

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