Abstract
Information security violations have negative organizational and personal impacts. Studies that examine key factors to motivate individuals to change their security-related behaviours are important to promote safe and secure computing. Drawing on protection motivation theory (PMT), this research aims to investigate the antecedents of threat and coping appraisals in relation to the individuals' information security protection intention among university students. It contributes to a better understanding of users' information security awareness through an examination of the impact of security education, training and awareness (SETA) programme on information security threat and countermeasures awareness and the role of information security awareness as an antecedent to the cognitive processes associated with coping and threat appraisals. In addition, this research contributes to extend PMT by investigating the role of fear and maladaptive rewards in explaining information security behaviours.
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