01656nas a2200181   4500000000100000008004100001260001500042100002700057700001800084700001700102700002400119700001500143700001200158245015100170856006500321520107400386022001401460       2023                            d  c2022-06-301 aWilson Cheong Hin Hong1 aYunFeng Zhang1 aChunYang Chi1 aVivian Ngan-Lin Lei1 aXiaoShu Xu1 aJia Liu00aThe influence of social education level on cybersecurity awareness and behaviour: a comparative study of university students and working graduates  uhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10639-022-11121-53 aA multitude of studies have suggested potential factors that influence internet security awareness (ISA). Some, for example, used GDP and nationality to explain different ISA levels in other countries but yielded inconsistent results. This study proposed an extended knowledge-attitude-behaviour (KAB) model, which postulates an influence of the education level of society at large is a moderator to the relationship between knowledge and attitude. Using exposure to a full-time working environment as a proxy for the influence, it was hypothesized that significant differences would be found in the attitude and behaviour dimensions across groups with different conditions of exposure and that exposure to full-time work plays a moderating role in KAB. To test the hypotheses, a large-scale survey adopting the Human Aspects of Information Security Questionnaire (HAIS-Q) was conducted with three groups of participants, namely 852 Year 1–3 students, 325 final-year students (age = 18–25) and 475 full-time employees (age = 18–50) in two cities of China.  a1360-2357