Factors affecting perception of information security and their impacts on IT adoption and security practices

International Journal of Human Computer Studies

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 870-883

  Huang, Ding Long ^a   Patrick Rau, Pei Luen ^a   Salvendy, Gavriel ^a,b   Gao, Fei ^a   Zhou, Jia ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

e Banking; Information security; IT adoption; Password; Perception; Security practices

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION INTENTION; E-BANKING; IT ADOPTION; IT SYSTEM; ONLINE FORUMS; PASSWORD; PATH ANALYSIS; PATH MODELS; SECURITY LEVEL; SECURITY PRACTICE; STRONG PASSWORD;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; EXPERIMENTS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SURVEYS;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 80052328300     PISSN: 10715819     EISSN: 10959300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2011.07.007     Document Type: Article

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