Journal
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGERNATURE
DOI: 10.1057/s41599-021-00746-5
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) [251805230/GRK 2050]
- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
- Hessen State Ministry for Higher Education, Research, Science and the Arts within the National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE
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This paper reports on a three-part investigation into people's perceptions of cybersecurity based on their lived experiences. It aims to reveal blind spot issues within the Johari grid, confirming known aspects and identifying a particular blind spot issue of widespread negativity towards cybersecurity. The study used a recognized psychology methodology and found scoping cybersecurity-related emotions to be nontrivial, suggesting the need for new measurement tools.
This paper reports on a three-part investigation into people's perceptions of cybersecurity, based on their lived experiences. We sought thereby to reveal issues located within the Johari grid's Blind Spot quadrant. We utilized research methodologies from both the Arts and Science in order firstly to identify blind spot issues, and secondly to explore their dimensions. Our investigation confirmed a number of aspects that we were indeed aware of, when it came to people's lived cybersecurity experiences. We also identified one particular blind spot issue: widespread, but not universal, negativity towards cybersecurity. We then carried out an investigation using a recognized methodology from psychology, as a first attempt to assess the nature of this negativity and to get a sense of its roots. What our initial experiment revealed was that scoping cybersecurity-related emotions is nontrivial and will require the formulation of new measurement tools. We conclude by reporting on the challenges, to inform researchers who plan to extend the research reported in this paper.
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