Impulsivity, online disinhibition, and risk taking among digital millennials: challenges of E-safety in industry 4.0

Digital millennials (i.e., people born from 1980 through 2004) have been often portrayed as being ready to embrace emerging technologies. The envisioned future of Industry 4.0 entails the blending of hardware, software, and people to complete work and given their affinity for technologies, the Mille...

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Main Authors: Erfianti, Levina Gendis, Mohd Mahudin, Nor Diana
Format: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
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Published: 2018
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description Digital millennials (i.e., people born from 1980 through 2004) have been often portrayed as being ready to embrace emerging technologies. The envisioned future of Industry 4.0 entails the blending of hardware, software, and people to complete work and given their affinity for technologies, the Millennials could be regarded as a much-needed asset in this future workforce. However, systematic research on how this group understand and react to the safety issues surrounding the use of technologies has been lacking. In particular, behaviours such as impulsivity, online disinhibition, and risk-taking among them remain unclear. This study investigated these gaps with a sample of 203 Millennials of various nationalities groups of university students. Using the short version of the Urgency, Premeditation, Perseverance, Sensation Seeking, and Positive Urgency (S-UPPS) scale, the Online Disinhibition Scale (ODS), and the Online Risky Behavior (ORB) scale, the results indicated that each of the impulsivity and online disinhibition subscales showed various level of significance against online risky behaviour subscales. These findings implied that the Millennials’ tendency to engage in risky behaviour varied across individuals. The study’s findings are also discussed in relation to the key challenges associated with e-safety in the future trends toward the gig economy, crowd-working, and Industry 4.0.
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spelling iium-683212018-12-21T01:48:41Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/68321/ Impulsivity, online disinhibition, and risk taking among digital millennials: challenges of E-safety in industry 4.0 Erfianti, Levina Gendis Mohd Mahudin, Nor Diana BF636 Applied psychology BF795 Temperament. Character T173.2 Technological change Digital millennials (i.e., people born from 1980 through 2004) have been often portrayed as being ready to embrace emerging technologies. The envisioned future of Industry 4.0 entails the blending of hardware, software, and people to complete work and given their affinity for technologies, the Millennials could be regarded as a much-needed asset in this future workforce. However, systematic research on how this group understand and react to the safety issues surrounding the use of technologies has been lacking. In particular, behaviours such as impulsivity, online disinhibition, and risk-taking among them remain unclear. This study investigated these gaps with a sample of 203 Millennials of various nationalities groups of university students. Using the short version of the Urgency, Premeditation, Perseverance, Sensation Seeking, and Positive Urgency (S-UPPS) scale, the Online Disinhibition Scale (ODS), and the Online Risky Behavior (ORB) scale, the results indicated that each of the impulsivity and online disinhibition subscales showed various level of significance against online risky behaviour subscales. These findings implied that the Millennials’ tendency to engage in risky behaviour varied across individuals. The study’s findings are also discussed in relation to the key challenges associated with e-safety in the future trends toward the gig economy, crowd-working, and Industry 4.0. 2018 Proceeding Paper NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/68321/1/SCICOSH%202018%20Erfianti%20%26%20Mohd%20Mahudin%20Program%20Book.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/68321/2/SCICOSH%202018%20Erfianti%20%26%20Mohd%20Mahudin%20Slides.pdf Erfianti, Levina Gendis and Mohd Mahudin, Nor Diana (2018) Impulsivity, online disinhibition, and risk taking among digital millennials: challenges of E-safety in industry 4.0. In: The 5th Scientific Conference on Occupational Safety and Health (SciCOSH 2018), 28th-29th November 2018, Putrajaya, Malaysia. (Unpublished) https://www.myscicosh.com/
spellingShingle BF636 Applied psychology
BF795 Temperament. Character
T173.2 Technological change
Erfianti, Levina Gendis
Mohd Mahudin, Nor Diana
Impulsivity, online disinhibition, and risk taking among digital millennials: challenges of E-safety in industry 4.0
title Impulsivity, online disinhibition, and risk taking among digital millennials: challenges of E-safety in industry 4.0
title_full Impulsivity, online disinhibition, and risk taking among digital millennials: challenges of E-safety in industry 4.0
title_fullStr Impulsivity, online disinhibition, and risk taking among digital millennials: challenges of E-safety in industry 4.0
title_full_unstemmed Impulsivity, online disinhibition, and risk taking among digital millennials: challenges of E-safety in industry 4.0
title_short Impulsivity, online disinhibition, and risk taking among digital millennials: challenges of E-safety in industry 4.0
title_sort impulsivity, online disinhibition, and risk taking among digital millennials: challenges of e-safety in industry 4.0
topic BF636 Applied psychology
BF795 Temperament. Character
T173.2 Technological change
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http://irep.iium.edu.my/68321/1/SCICOSH%202018%20Erfianti%20%26%20Mohd%20Mahudin%20Program%20Book.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/68321/2/SCICOSH%202018%20Erfianti%20%26%20Mohd%20Mahudin%20Slides.pdf