Examining The Relationship Between Stress Levels and Cybersecurity Practices Among Hospital Employees in Three Countries Ghana, Norway, and Indonesia - Final
Examining The Relationship Between Stress Levels and Cybersecurity Practices Among Hospital Employees in Three Countries Ghana, Norway, and Indonesia - Final
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I N V O LV E D A H U M A N
FA C T O R
Humans are frequently
referred to as the weakest
link in cybersecurity
1 2 3 4 5
2015 2016 2018 2019 2020
Whitty et al. Halevi et al. Gratian et al. Yeng et al. Kennison and
Chan-Tin
Studied the link Evaluated Investigated human Proposed a framework
between several the connection characteristics such as to analyze security Studied how
factors including between cultural, personality traits, risk- practices of hospital personality traits, risk-
impulsivity, self- personality, and taking preferences, employees that combine taking preferences,
monitoring, and demographic and decision-making demographic and and secure password
internal-external variables and styles with psycho-socio-cultural knowledge can be
control and password cybersecurity cybersecurity behavior factors correlated to risky
sharing behavior. practices intentions. cybersecurity
practices.
The Research
Stress also have a
significant effect
on human behavior
Method
A S U RV E Y C O N D U C T E D I N
T H R E E H O S P I TA L S I N
G H A N A , A H O S P I TA L I N
N O RWAY, A N D A H O S P I TA L
IN INDONESIA
Specifically, the staff’s tendency to click on links • No significant differences were found in the
from unknown sources was found to be the risky levels of risky cybersecurity practices between
cybersecurity practice most heavily associated male and female participants or among
with higher stress levels different age groups, positions, position
levels, and work experience.
• A significant difference was observed in risky
cybersecurity practices scores across staff
groups based on the country of origin, with
hospital staff from Norway having safer
cybersecurity practices.
Future work
• A N A LY Z I N G T H E C A U S A L R E L AT I O N S H I P S
BETWEEN STRESS LEVELS AND
CYBERSECURITY PRACTICES
• E X P L O R E O T H E R FA C T O R S I N F L U E N C I N G
RISKY CYBERSECURITY PRACTICES
A M O N G H O S P I TA L S TA F F, S U C H A S
P E R S O N A L I T Y T R A I T S , M O T I VAT I O N , O R
J O B S AT I S FA C T I O N
• E X A M I N E T H E E F F E C T I V E N E S S O F VA R I O U S
I N T E RV E N T I O N S A I M E D AT P R O M O T I N G
SAFER CYBERSECURITY PRACTICES
A M O N G H O S P I TA L S TA F F
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