..., this paper aims to examine the motivating factors that drive South African fibre users to protect their home networking devices. Design/methodology/approach Using the protection motivation theory as the primary framework, a measurement instrument comprising 53 questionnaire items was developed to measure...

... they interpret questionnaire measurement items operationalizing the variables Perceived Severity from Protection Motivation Theory and Attitude from Theory of Planned Behavior. Findings The authors found that respondents’ interpretations in many cases differ substantially from the theoretical definitions...

... to compliance behaviour in response to cyber threats. The study aims to examine the protection motivation theory (PMT)-based model to understand individuals’ tendency to adopt secure behaviours. Design/methodology/approach The study focuses on Australian micro businesses since they are more susceptible...

.... Design/methodology/approach This study adopted protection motivation theory (PMT) and associated its constructs with subjective norms to build a comprehensive research model. The authors tested the research model using survey data from 830 search engine users worldwide. Findings The results confirm...

... ; Parsons et al., 2010). In conjunction with the organizational response, employees also need to perceive phishing emails as a serious threat, being motivated to take personal control in preventing successful phishing attacks. Given these considerations, protection motivation theory (PMT; Rogers...

...Jurjen Jansen; Paul van Schaik Purpose The purpose of this paper is to test the protection motivation theory (PMT) in the context of fear appeal interventions to reduce the threat of phishing attacks. In addition, it was tested to what extent the model relations are equivalent across fear appeal...

...Jurjen Jansen; Paul van Schaik Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare three social cognitive models in their ability to explain intentions of precautionary online behaviour. The models are: protection motivation theory (PMT), the reasoned action approach (RAA) and an integrated model...

.... Extensions in terms of anticipated regret and constructs drawn from the protection motivation theory are tested using hierarchical regression analysis. Findings – Adding anticipated regret and the threat appraisal process results in improvements of the predictions of intentions. The improvements...

... conduct in the demonstrative experiment. Originality/value It is original to adopt a model defined by social psychology, especially Protection Motivation Theory and Elaborative Likelihood Model. The authors conducted both questionnaire survey and the psychological experiment. Regardless of whether...