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Users' Concerns and the Internet of Things (IoT) Risk Beliefs

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: This paper builds a prediction model with four predictor variables and one dependent variable. The predictor variables are users' concerns about IoT privacy, users' concerns about IoT security, users' concerns about IoT awareness, and users' concerns about IoT device use. The dependent variable is users' IoT risk beliefs. The prediction model determines the influential predictor variables that predict the users' IoT risk beliefs. An instrument with five constructs was designed and administered to subjects working in various organizations in the USA. Collected data from 386 usable data were analyzed through multiple regression analysis. The analysis was used to answer the study's research question, which asked which of the four independent/predictor variables are influential in predicting the dependent variable. Results indicated that all four predictor variables were influential in predicting users' IoT risk beliefs, with IoT security concerns more influential than the other three. The findings, theoretical implications, practical implications, and future work are discussed.

Source: Journal of Global Information Management

DOI: 10.4018/jgim.359210

Authors: Carol Springer Sargent, Alex Koohang, Salome Svanadze

Institutions: Mercer University, Mercer University Health Sciences Center, Middle Georgia State University, Caucasus International University

Language: English

Topic: Privacy, Security, and Data Protection

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4403933899

FWCI: 5.107

Cites: 86

Cited by: 7

Related to: 10