Jerrim, John;
(2023)
WHO RESPONDS TO PHISHING EMAILS? AN INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION OF 15-YEAR-OLDS USING PISA DATA.
British Journal of Educational Studies
10.1080/00071005.2023.2234456.
(In press).
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Abstract
oung people are facing an ever-increasing array of online dangers. One of the most common is receipt of a phishing email. This paper presents new evidence on the characteristics of young people most likely to respond to such emails. I find approximately one-in-seven 15-year-olds are at risk of responding to a phishing email, rising to one-in-five amongst those from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds. Such risks are particularly high amongst young people with low levels of cognitive skill. Unfortunately, students who are taught about the dangers posed by phishing emails at school are just as likely to take inappropriate actions following their receipt as their peers who have not. I thus conclude that greater emphasis and higher quality instruction needs to be provided to young people about the online risks they face, particularly to those from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds and low academic achievers.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | WHO RESPONDS TO PHISHING EMAILS? AN INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION OF 15-YEAR-OLDS USING PISA DATA |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00071005.2023.2234456 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2023.2234456 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | PISA, socio-economic inequality, phishing, cyber-fraud |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10177023 |
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