Survey about cyberattack protection motivation in higher education: Academics at Slovenian universities, 2017
This research addresses cybersecurity motivation in higher education, but it is incremental as it applies an existing framework to a specific context.
The study investigated factors influencing motivation to protect against cyberattacks among academics at Slovenian universities, finding associations with variables like fear, perceived severity, and self-efficacy based on a survey of 255 respondents.
This paper reports on a study aiming to explore factors associated with motivation of individuals in organizations to protect against cyberattacks. The objectives of this study were to determine how fear of cyberattacks, perceived severity, perceived vulnerability, perceived threats, measure efficacy, self-efficacy, measure costs, mandatoriness and psychological reactance are associated with protection motivation of individuals in organizations. The study employed a cross-sectional research design. A survey was conducted among academics at six Slovenian universities between June and September 2017. A total of 324 respondents completed the survey (7.6 percent response rate) providing for N=255 useful responses after excluding poorly completed responses. The survey questionnaire was developed in English. A Slovenian translation of the survey questionnaire is available.