Journal
INFORMATION & MANAGEMENT
Volume 52, Issue 4, Pages 506-517Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.im.2015.03.002
Keywords
Mobile device loss or theft; Protection motivation; Social learning
Funding
- social sciences and humanities research council of Canada
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The loss and theft of mobile devices is a growing risk that has yet to be addressed in detail by the IS community. This study extends the literature significantly by examining the roles of key information sources in coping and threat appraisal development. This is accomplished by integrating protection-motivation with social learning theories. Through an email interview (n = 12) and two surveys (pilot, n = 115 and main, n = 339), the study identifies and shows how key information sources (knowledge regarding countermeasures, social influences, and experience of the threat) influence users' coping and threat appraisals and, ultimately, coping intentions. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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