Predicting individuals’ vulnerability to social engineering in social networks

Cybersecurity

Table 4 Path coefficient results (significance testing- group a)

Hypo	Relationship	Std. Beta	STDEV	T-value	P-value	95% Confidence interval
Ha1	Involvement- > Susceptibility	0.222	0.063	5.002	0.000**	0.098	0.344
Ha2	Num-Con - > Susceptibility	−0.100	0.041	2.428	0.015^a	−0.181	−0.019
Ha3	KnownFR - > Susceptibility	−0.127	0.047	2.735	0.006**	−0.222	−0.037
Ha4	SNEXP - > Susceptibility	−0.163	0.054	3.015	0.003**	−0.268	− 0.053
Ha5	Risk - > Susceptibility	− 0.058	0.051	1.142	0.254	−0.157	0.041
Ha6	Competence - > Susceptibility	−0.125	0.050	2.474	0.013*	−0.224	−0.029
Ha7	CCEXP - > Susceptibility	0.222	0.059	3.736	0.000**	0.105	0.340
Ha8	Trust - > Susceptibility	0.286	0.055	5.202	0.000**	0.177	0.392
Ha9	Motivation - > Susceptibility	0.015	0.043	0.346	0.729	−0.068	0.099

Significant at ** p < 0.01, * p < 0.05; ^a statistically significant but in the opposite direction to that hypothesised