Emotional Reactions to Cybersecurity Breach Situations: Scenario-Based Survey Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With the ever-expanding interconnectedness of the internet and especially with the recent development of the Internet of Things, people are increasingly at risk for cybersecurity breaches that can have far-reaching consequences for their personal and professional lives, with psychological and mental health ramifications.

Objective

We aimed to identify the dimensional structure of emotion processes triggered by one of the most emblematic scenarios of cybersecurity breach, the hacking of one's smart security camera, and explore which personality characteristics systematically relate to these emotion dimensions.

Methods

A total of 902 participants from the United Kingdom and the Netherlands reported their emotion processes triggered by a cybersecurity breach s

SUBMITTER: Budimir S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8156130 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature