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Individual characteristics and hacking, piracy, online gambling and pornography use among students: a study in Malaysia

In this study, 441 Universiti Teknologi Malaysia students participated as respondents. Through a questionnaire respondents were asked how frequently they engage in specific behaviors, including hacking, using pirated software, music and movies in addition to use of gambling and pornography sites. Th...

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Main Authors: Jafarkarimi, Hosein, Tze, Alex Hiang Sim, Saadatdoost, Robab, Jee, Mei Hee
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Published: IGI Global 2015
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QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/55833/
http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/IJCBPL.2015040103
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spelling my.utm.558332017-08-25T03:37:50Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/55833/ Individual characteristics and hacking, piracy, online gambling and pornography use among students: a study in Malaysia Jafarkarimi, Hosein Tze, Alex Hiang Sim Saadatdoost, Robab Jee, Mei Hee QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science In this study, 441 Universiti Teknologi Malaysia students participated as respondents. Through a questionnaire respondents were asked how frequently they engage in specific behaviors, including hacking, using pirated software, music and movies in addition to use of gambling and pornography sites. The aim was to investigate which individual characteristics including age, gender, religion, citizenship, level of education, ego strength and locus of control are among determinants of these behaviors. The results of these questions were used to report the ratio of frequent users of these materials based on different categories. Logistic regression was used to see what the influential factors in the investigated behaviors are. The results suggest that males are more engaged with almost all of the investigated behaviors. In addition, citizenship, ego strength, age and religion reflected a statistically significant difference among people in certain activities. Level of education and locus of control did not reflect any significance in engaging in aforementioned behaviors. IGI Global 2015-04 Article PeerReviewed Jafarkarimi, Hosein and Tze, Alex Hiang Sim and Saadatdoost, Robab and Jee, Mei Hee (2015) Individual characteristics and hacking, piracy, online gambling and pornography use among students: a study in Malaysia. International Journal of Cyber Behavior, Psychology and Learning, 5 (2). pp. 30-43. ISSN 2155-7136 http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/IJCBPL.2015040103 DOI:10.4018/IJCBPL.2015040103
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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country Malaysia
content_provider Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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topic QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
spellingShingle QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Jafarkarimi, Hosein
Tze, Alex Hiang Sim
Saadatdoost, Robab
Jee, Mei Hee
Individual characteristics and hacking, piracy, online gambling and pornography use among students: a study in Malaysia
description In this study, 441 Universiti Teknologi Malaysia students participated as respondents. Through a questionnaire respondents were asked how frequently they engage in specific behaviors, including hacking, using pirated software, music and movies in addition to use of gambling and pornography sites. The aim was to investigate which individual characteristics including age, gender, religion, citizenship, level of education, ego strength and locus of control are among determinants of these behaviors. The results of these questions were used to report the ratio of frequent users of these materials based on different categories. Logistic regression was used to see what the influential factors in the investigated behaviors are. The results suggest that males are more engaged with almost all of the investigated behaviors. In addition, citizenship, ego strength, age and religion reflected a statistically significant difference among people in certain activities. Level of education and locus of control did not reflect any significance in engaging in aforementioned behaviors.
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author Jafarkarimi, Hosein
Tze, Alex Hiang Sim
Saadatdoost, Robab
Jee, Mei Hee
author_facet Jafarkarimi, Hosein
Tze, Alex Hiang Sim
Saadatdoost, Robab
Jee, Mei Hee
author_sort Jafarkarimi, Hosein
title Individual characteristics and hacking, piracy, online gambling and pornography use among students: a study in Malaysia
title_short Individual characteristics and hacking, piracy, online gambling and pornography use among students: a study in Malaysia
title_full Individual characteristics and hacking, piracy, online gambling and pornography use among students: a study in Malaysia
title_fullStr Individual characteristics and hacking, piracy, online gambling and pornography use among students: a study in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Individual characteristics and hacking, piracy, online gambling and pornography use among students: a study in Malaysia
title_sort individual characteristics and hacking, piracy, online gambling and pornography use among students: a study in malaysia
publisher IGI Global
publishDate 2015
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/55833/
http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/IJCBPL.2015040103
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