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    Vengeance is Mine: A Model of Emotional Appraisal and Computer Abuse

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    Authors
    Kim, J.
    Park, E.
    Baskerville, Richard
    Date
    2012
    Type
    Conference Paper
    
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    Kim, J. and Park, E. and Baskerville, R. 2012. Vengeance is Mine: A Model of Emotional Appraisal and Computer Abuse, in J D'Arcy and G Moody. Proceedings Editor: Anthony Vance (ed), The 2012 Dewald Roode Workshop on Information Systems Security Research, IFIP WG8.11/WG 11.13, Sep 21 2012, pp. 1-26. New York State, USA: IFIP.
    Source Title
    Proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.11/11.3 2012 Dewald Roode Information Security Workshop
    Source Conference
    The 2012 Dewald Roode Workshop on Information Systems Security Research, IFIP WG8.11/WG 11.13
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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/16693
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    What factors drive individuals to abuse information systems? Better understanding of the roots behind this individual decision could provide opportunities to reduce computer abuse by reducing the presence of these factors. In this paper, we examine the effects of both organizational and personal factors on an individual’s computer abuse behavior. We develop our theoretical model based on abuse opportunity structure theory and literature on emotion theory. Specifically, we identify the organization abuse structure as an organizational factor and three personal factors (goal conduciveness, abuse positive affect, and morality) as personal factors. We investigate their effects on the assessments and decisions that individuals make about computer abuse. The results of a controlled laboratory experiment showed that the organization abuse structure affects these decisions through the assessment of goal conduciveness and abuse positive affect. Morality, however, was found to directly and indirectly affect an individual’s abuse intent. These results imply that security practices are subject to individual appraisals that raise emotions that are in turn conditioned by morality in specific ways. A technical evaluation of the practices is incomplete when absent of the individual appraisal.

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