Personality traits and cyber-attack victimisation: multiple mediation analysis

Samar Muslah Albladi; George R S Weir

doi:10.1109/CTTE.2017.8260932

Personality traits and cyber-attack victimisation: multiple mediation analysis

Samar Muslah Albladi, George R S Weir

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Abstract

The current research aims to gain insight on the role of the five personality traits (conscientiousness, neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness, and openness to experience) in users' susceptibility to cyber-attack victimisation in the context of online social networks and investigates how different factors such as users' competence to deal with online threats, users' trust in other members in social network as well as trusting the network's service provider, users' motivation to engage in the network, and users' experience with cyber-crimes mediate and control this relationship. The effect of personality traits on user's online risky behaviour is still a controversial topic in cyber security research. Therefore, the present study proposes a mediation model that includes the five personality traits and the four mediators that together affect the user's likelihood of falling victim to cyber-attacks. The study conducted a scenario-based experiment with 316 participants to test the study model and the hypotheses' significance. Empirical results indicate that all five personality traits, except openness, have significant indirect effect on users' susceptibility to cyber-attack victimisation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Joint 13th CTTE and 10th CMI Conference on Internet of Things – Business Models, Users, and Networks
Editors	Morten Falch
Place of Publication	Piscataway, NJ
Publisher	IEEE
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538631973
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CTTE.2017.8260932
Publication status	Published - 18 Jan 2018
Event	Joint CTTE and CMI Conference 2017: Internet of Things - Business Models, Users, and Networks - Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark Duration: 23 Nov 2017 → 24 Nov 2017

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Conference	Joint CTTE and CMI Conference 2017
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Copenhagen
Period	23/11/17 → 24/11/17

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social network services
electronic mail
mediation
computer crime
mathematical model
predictive models

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