The Adaptive Roles of Positive and Negative Emotions in Organizational Insiders’ Security-Based Precaution Taking

Burns, Alvin C.; Roberts, Tom; Posey, Clay; Lowry, Paul Benjamin

doi:10.1287/isre.2019.0860

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“…These resources can reinforce the possibility of successfully coping with information security issues with original ideas (Gulenko, 2014). Therefore, as employees increasingly seek to protect organizational information resources through creative IT-related activities, the effectiveness of the organization's ISPs will also substantially improve (Burns et al, 2019).…”

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“…Thus far, little work has been carried out to explore the relationship between employees' internal emotions and their information security behaviours. To the best of our knowledge, only Gulenko (2014), Burns et al (2017) and Burns et al (2019) have discussed the positive emotions that can facilitate employees' information security behaviours. Second, despite the growing body of studies that have examined the nature of employees' compli-ance or noncompliance toward ISPs (Siponen & Vance, 2010;Cheng et al, 2013), research on internal abilities and psychological factors that enable employees to proactively protect organizational information assets has remained nascent.…”

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Positive Emotions and Employees’ Protection-Motivated Behaviours: A Moderated Mediation Model

Zhang

Xie²,

Dong

2020

Journal of Business Economics and Management

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This study explores the relationship between positive emotions and protection-motivated behaviours by focusing on the mediating role of self-efficacy and the moderating role of information security awareness. Based on a sample of 215 full-time employees from various organizations in China, the results of hierarchical regression and moderated path analysis indicate that positive emotions positively influence protection-motivated behaviours, and self-efficacy partially mediates this relationship. In addition, information security awareness has a positive moderating effect on the relationships between positive emotions and self-efficacy and between self-efficacy and protectionmotivated behaviours. Furthermore, the findings show that information security awareness has a positive moderating effect on the mediating effect of self-efficacy between positive emotions and protection-motivated behaviours. The theoretical and practical implications of these results, as well as directions for future research, are discussed.

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Section: Broaden-and-build Theorymentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Positive Emotions and Employees’ Protection-Motivated Behaviours: A Moderated Mediation Model

Zhang

Xie²,

Dong

2020

Journal of Business Economics and Management

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“…Furthermore, as security fatigue is conceptualized in terms of three emotional states, our work contributes to the emerging research that considers emotions as important drivers of security policy compliance. As opposed to prior IS security studies on this subject, which focused on emotions such as fear (Johnston & Warkentin, 2010), anxiety (Burns, Roberts, Posey, & Lowry, 2019) and reactance (Lowry & Moody, 2015), our identification of frustration, tiredness and hopelessness (as per the conceptualization of security fatigue) offers a fresh set of emotional states that are relevant to security policy compliance, and so furthers IS security research on the non‐rational drivers (i.e., not pure cognitive deliberation) of this employee behaviour.…”

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When enough is enough: Investigating the antecedents and consequences of information security fatigue

Cram

Proudfoot

D’Arcy

2020

Information Systems Journal

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Despite concerns raised by practitioners, the potential downside of the information security demands imposed by organizations on their employees has received limited scholarly attention. Our research focuses on information security fatigue (hereafter security fatigue), which is defined as a socio‐emotional state experienced by an individual who is tired of and disillusioned with security policies and their associated guidelines and procedures. This research delves into the security fatigue concept, investigates its antecedents and reports how fatigue affects employee security policy compliance (and non‐compliance). Since security fatigue is not well articulated in the literature and there is limited understanding of its antecedents and consequences, we take a research approach that affords novel insight into this phenomenon. Specifically, we conduct 38 in‐depth interviews with business and IT professionals, and then use a qualitative approach to construct a model, including seven research propositions, to highlight the key aspects of security fatigue. Our results indicate that four distinct antecedents contribute to security fatigue, which result in three unique consequences. We discuss security fatigue in relation to past theoretical views and related concepts within the security policy compliance literature and identify directions for future research.

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“…After the pilot study, an online survey company, Sojump (https://www.wjx.cn/), was commissioned to collect the data by targeting HOK players with email invitations to solicit their participation in the survey. Using external panelists is a well-established research approach with certain methodological advantages over traditional methods (D'arcy et al, 2014;Burns et al, 2019). First, external panels offer anonymity, encouraging candid responses and minimizing response bias (Burns et al, 2019).…”

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We-intention to continue playing mobile multiplayer games: the role of social play habit

Suh

2021

INTR

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PurposeThe purpose of this study is to develop and test a theoretical model that accounts for an individual's we-intention to continue playing a mobile multiplayer game.Design/methodology/approachDrawing on habit-intention and habit formation theories, this study conceptualizes social play habit as a determinant of the we-intention to continue playing and identifies its antecedents. The proposed model was tested through a survey of 277 players of Honor of Kings, a popular mobile multiplayer game.FindingsThe results indicate that developing social play habit is critical to the formation of a we-intention to continue playing in the context of mobile multiplayer games. The results also suggest that technological (social features embedded in the game) and individual (desire for co-play and privacy concerns) factors jointly influence social play habit.Research limitations/implicationsThis study contributes to the literature on we-intention by conceptualizing social play habit and verifying its role in facilitating a shared intention to continue playing mobile multiplayer games. Our work responds to the call for understanding the mechanism by which multiple people form a shared intention to continue using an information technology at a collective level. Our findings provide significant insights into the design of information technologies for collaboration.Originality/valueThis study is among the first to extend the literature on gaming habits by considering other players' involvement. Specifically, our study shifts researchers' attention from gaming habits characterized by individual properties to social gaming habits characterized by communal properties.

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The Adaptive Roles of Positive and Negative Emotions in Organizational Insiders’ Security-Based Precaution Taking

Cited by 58 publications

References 123 publications

Positive Emotions and Employees’ Protection-Motivated Behaviours: A Moderated Mediation Model

Positive Emotions and Employees’ Protection-Motivated Behaviours: A Moderated Mediation Model

When enough is enough: Investigating the antecedents and consequences of information security fatigue

We-intention to continue playing mobile multiplayer games: the role of social play habit

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