Tu et al., 2015: Learning to Cope with Information Security Risks Regarding Mobile Device Loss or Theft: An Empirical Examination

Topic:

The study identifies and shows how key information sources (knowledge regarding countermeasures, social influences, and experience of the threat) influence users’ coping and threat appraisals and, ultimately, coping intentions.

interview and survey, 339 participants

Constructs in this publication:

Construct	Cites	Category	Questions given?	Content validity	Pretests	Response type	Notes
Social influence	Johnston, 2010		yes	none	pilot	5 point likert scale ranging from "Strongly disagree" to "strongly agree"
Knowledge regarding the response	NEW		yes	none	pilot	5 point likert scale ranging from "I do not know it" to "I know how it works"
Experience of Threat	NEW		yes	none	pilot	binary scale "never" or "at least once"
Self-efficacy	Lee, 2009, Workman et al., 2008		yes	none	pilot	5 point likert scale ranging from "Strongly disagree" to "strongly agree"
Response efficacy	Lee, 2009, Workman et al., 2008		yes	none	pilot	5 point likert scale ranging from "Strongly disagree" to "strongly agree"
Perceived threat	Lee, 2009, Liang, 2009, Workman et al., 2008		yes	none	pilot	5 point likert scale ranging from "Strongly disagree" to "strongly agree"
Coping intentions	Davis, 1989		yes	none	pilot	5 point likert scale ranging from "Strongly disagree" to "strongly agree"

Citation:

Zhiling Tu, Ofir Turel, Yufei Yuan, and Norm Archer. Learning to cope with information security risks regarding mobile device loss or theft: An empirical examination. Information & Management, 52(4):506–517, 2015. doi:10.1016/j.im.2015.03.002.

Bibtex

@article{tu_learning_2015,
 author = {Tu, Zhiling and Turel, Ofir and Yuan, Yufei and Archer, Norm},
 doi = {10.1016/j.im.2015.03.002},
 journal = {Information \& Management},
 number = {4},
 pages = {506--517},
 shorttitle = {Learning to Cope with Information Security Risks Regarding Mobile Device Loss or Theft},
 title = {Learning to Cope with Information Security Risks Regarding Mobile Device Loss or Theft: {{An}} Empirical Examination},
 volume = {52},
 year = {2015}
}

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