Title
Validation of a cybercrime awareness scale in Peruvian university students
Other title
Validación de una escala de conciencia sobre ciberdelito en estudiantes universitarios de Perú Miles Doctus.
Date Issued
01 January 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Asís E.H.R.
Figueroa R.P.N.
Quiñones R.E.T.
Mázmela P.R.H.M.
Publisher(s)
Escuela Militar de Cadetes
Abstract
This article presents an evaluation to classify cybercrime indicator awareness in students of three universities in Peru. To this end, it applied a twenty-item Likert scale questionnaire using Google Forms to a total of 372 students. Exploratory factor analysis was applied to the data collected, resulting in four factors: 1) phishing awareness, 2) spamming awareness, 3) antivirus software effectiveness, and 4) web bullying. The cybercrime awareness scale showed adequate internal consistency, presenting .892 in Cronbach's alpha for the overall instrument and a range from .782 to .861 in the subscales' alphas, thus, making it possible to determine the validity and reliability of the proposed scale.
Start page
209
End page
224
Volume
20
Issue
37
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Educación general (incluye capacitación, pedadogía) Ciencias de la computación
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85125283863
Source
Revista Cientifica General Jose Maria Cordova
ISSN of the container
19006586
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