Personality traits and cyber hygiene behavior among university students

Cyber hygiene often plays an important role in cybersecurity breaches. This project is to explore personality traits and cyber hygiene behaviour among university students. Each person has their own personality type which will affect their cyber hygiene behaviour. So, there are Big Five personality t...

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Main Author: Hew, Chi Wei
Format: Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis
Published: 2020
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http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4752/1/fyp_IB_2020_HCW.pdf
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description Cyber hygiene often plays an important role in cybersecurity breaches. This project is to explore personality traits and cyber hygiene behaviour among university students. Each person has their own personality type which will affect their cyber hygiene behaviour. So, there are Big Five personality traits such as openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and also neuroticism of each university student that will be analysed in this study. University students may become a victim if they do not have good cyber hygiene behaviour. A sample of 150 UTAR students will be selected to answer the online questionnaire. After that, data obtained will be analysed by using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) and examine the result of data. Pilot studying for survey should be conducted in this project to assess the reliability of the variables and items in the questionnaire before starting the research formally. 30 students were selected for this pilot study and the tool used for testing reliability which is SPSS to analyse the data which have been collected.
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spelling utar-47522023-01-04T08:14:58Z Personality traits and cyber hygiene behavior among university students Hew, Chi Wei BF Psychology T Technology (General) Cyber hygiene often plays an important role in cybersecurity breaches. This project is to explore personality traits and cyber hygiene behaviour among university students. Each person has their own personality type which will affect their cyber hygiene behaviour. So, there are Big Five personality traits such as openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and also neuroticism of each university student that will be analysed in this study. University students may become a victim if they do not have good cyber hygiene behaviour. A sample of 150 UTAR students will be selected to answer the online questionnaire. After that, data obtained will be analysed by using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) and examine the result of data. Pilot studying for survey should be conducted in this project to assess the reliability of the variables and items in the questionnaire before starting the research formally. 30 students were selected for this pilot study and the tool used for testing reliability which is SPSS to analyse the data which have been collected. 2020-06 Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4752/1/fyp_IB_2020_HCW.pdf Hew, Chi Wei (2020) Personality traits and cyber hygiene behavior among university students. Final Year Project, UTAR. http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4752/
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Personality traits and cyber hygiene behavior among university students
title Personality traits and cyber hygiene behavior among university students
title_full Personality traits and cyber hygiene behavior among university students
title_fullStr Personality traits and cyber hygiene behavior among university students
title_full_unstemmed Personality traits and cyber hygiene behavior among university students
title_short Personality traits and cyber hygiene behavior among university students
title_sort personality traits and cyber hygiene behavior among university students
topic BF Psychology
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url http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4752/
http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4752/1/fyp_IB_2020_HCW.pdf