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Citizens’ Cybersecurity Behavior: Some Major Challenges
2022
Citizens’ cybersecurity behaviors are an important concern in the modern age. This work discusses the challenges of studying citizen cybersecurity behaviors and the directions for future research. peerReviewed
Understanding the inward emotion-focused coping strategies of individual users in response to mobile malware threats
2021
According to coping theory, individuals cope with information system threats by adopting either problem-focused coping (PFC) or emotion-focused coping (EFC). However, little is known about EFC in the information security (ISec) literature. Moreover, there is potential confusion regarding the meaning of some EFC strategies. Hence, ISec scholars and practitioners may (i) have a narrow view of EFC or (ii) confuse it with other concepts. In this study, we offer one response to this issue. We first address the ambiguity regarding EFC before differentiating five inward EFC strategies and assessing them empirically in the mobile malware context. To the best of our knowledge, this study is the firs…