Personality traits and cyber hygiene behavior among university students

• Main Author: Hew, Chi Wei
• Format: Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: BF Psychology; T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4752/1/fyp_IB_2020_HCW.pdf; http://eprints.utar.edu.my/4752/
• Institution: Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman

Cyber hygiene often plays an important role in cybersecurity breaches. This project is to explore personality traits and cyber hygiene behaviour among university students. Each person has their own personality type which will affect their cyber hygiene behaviour. So, there are Big Five personality traits such as openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and also neuroticism of each university student that will be analysed in this study. University students may become a victim if they do not have good cyber hygiene behaviour. A sample of 150 UTAR students will be selected to answer the online questionnaire. After that, data obtained will be analysed by using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) and examine the result of data. Pilot studying for survey should be conducted in this project to assess the reliability of the variables and items in the questionnaire before starting the research formally. 30 students were selected for this pilot study and the tool used for testing reliability which is SPSS to analyse the data which have been collected.