Fear Appeals and Information Security Behaviors: An Empirical Study

By Allen C. Johnston, Merrill Warkentin. MIS Q., 2010

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Subfields: Communication, Information Systems, Information Systems and Management

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The Impact of Organizational Commitment on Insiders’ Motivation to Protect Organizational Information Assets (2015, methodology): “PMT has been used as the foundation for numerous previous efforts in information security [20, 40, 45, 53, 54, 102, 115].”
Future directions for behavioral information security research (2013, methodology): “Further studies have adapted Protection Motivation Theory (PMT)tounderstandthebehaviorsofindividualswhenitcomes to the performance of a number of security measures, such as the use of anti-malware software (Johnston and Warkentin, 2010; Lee and Larsen, 2009; Liang and Xue, 2010), compliance with sec”
Beyond Deterrence: An Expanded View of Employee Computer Abuse (2013, background): “…which either hinder or facilitate compliance with security policies (Boss et al. 2009; Bulgurcu et al. 2010; Dodge et al. 2007; Herath and Rao 2009; Johnston and Warkentin 2010; Lee and Larsen 2009; Myyry et al. 2009, Pahnila et al. 2007; Sasse et al. 2001; Siponen and Vance 2010; Straub 1990;…”
Managing Employee Compliance with Information Security Policies: The Critical Role of Top Management and Organizational Culture (2012, background): “…frameworks are cognitive theories (Herath & Rao, 2009b; Myyry, Siponen, Pahnila, Vartiainen, & Vance, 2009; Bulgurcu, Cavusoglu, & Benbasat, 2010; Johnston & Warkentin, 2010) and criminological theories (Straub, 1990; Willison & Backhouse, 2006; D’Arcy, Havav, & Galletta, 2009; Siponen & Vance,…”
Motivating IS security compliance: Insights from Habit and Protection Motivation Theory (2012, background): “Of the four papers dealing with this [4,7,13,22] none discussed Antecedent sources of Information or Rewards.”
The unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT): a literature review (2015, background): “…(1) Dada (2006) Knowledge Management System (3) He and Wei (2009), Jalaldeen et al. (2009), Li (2010) Security Information System (1) Johnston and Warkentin (2010) Web-based Virtual M-Learning System (8) Chiu and Wang (2008), Jong and Wang (2009), Keller et al. (2007), Nistor et al.…”
What Do Systems Users Have to Fear? Using Fear Appeals to Engender Threats and Fear that Motivate Protective Security Behaviors (2015, methodology): “The fear-appeals model (FAM) was proposed by Johnston and Warkentin (2010). As with TTAT, several papers incorrectly refer to FAM as”
Employees' adherence to information security policies: An exploratory field study (2014, background): “Johnston and Warkentin [7] investigated the effect of fearinducing arguments (e.”
An Enhanced Fear Appeal Rhetorical Framework: Leveraging Threats to the Human Asset Through Sanctioning Rhetoric (2015, background): “…is decades old and has been adapted numerous times in attempts to predict security policy compliance attitudes (Herath and Rao 2009; Ifinedo 2012; Johnston and Warkentin 2010), intentions to engage in protective behavior through the adoption of protective software (Lee 2011; Lee et al. 2009;…”