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My computer is infected: the role of users’ sensation seeking and domain-specific risk perceptions and risk attitudes on computer harm

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  • Juan Herrero
  • Alberto Urueña
  • Andrea Torres
  • Antonio Hidalgo

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Literature has traditionally shown the potentially harmful consequences of risk-taking in a variety of domains. Less scholarly attention, however, has been directed to the study of risk-taking in the computer use domain. Using scanned data from 1902 computers, we sought to analyze the potentially harmful consequences that sensation-seeking and computer use risk perceptions and attitudes had on users’ computer vulnerability. Results of the study indicated that general sensation-seeking as well as computer use risk perceptions and risk attitudes were predictive of computer harm. The general measure of sensation-seeking was predictive of both risk perceptions and risk attitudes which in turn translated into the existence of malicious software in users’ computers.

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  • Juan Herrero & Alberto Urueña & Andrea Torres & Antonio Hidalgo, 2017. "My computer is infected: the role of users’ sensation seeking and domain-specific risk perceptions and risk attitudes on computer harm," Journal of Risk Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(11), pages 1466-1479, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jriskr:v:20:y:2017:i:11:p:1466-1479
    DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2016.1153504
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    1. Arenas, Álvaro & Ray, Gautam & Hidalgo, Antonio & Urueña, Alberto, 2024. "How to keep your information secure? Toward a better understanding of users security behavior," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 198(C).

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