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Personality, culture and password behavior: a relationship study

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Abdullahi Abubakar Kawu,

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AfriCHI '18: Proceedings of the Second African Conference for Human Computer Interaction: Thriving Communities

Article No.: 36, Pages 1 - 4

https://doi.org/10.1145/3283458.3283530

Published: 03 December 2018 Publication History

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Culture - an aggregation of people's location, language, tribe and economic activities might have a role to play in the security decisions of users. Culture in this context is even more relevant in most African societies as there are many ethnic groups. Studies on users' password behavior have seen some advances, but little is known of the relationship between people's password behaviors, their personality and cultural backgrounds. In this paper, we report a study of the relationship between passwords and personality of the users. We also analyzed culture (via ethnic grouping) to determine its relationship with password strength. The results of the study of 230 participants indicate that although there exists a relationship between personality of users and their passwords behavior, it is quite weak and mainly negatively related except for participants high in agreeableness (cooperative) traits, hence might create stronger passwords. In addition, most participants (93%) created weak passwords, notwithstanding, participants who have defined themselves as belonging to Hausa tend to create better passwords than Nupe and Gbagyi ethnic group participants.

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AfriCHI '18: Proceedings of the Second African Conference for Human Computer Interaction: Thriving Communities

December 2018

373 pages

ISBN:9781450365581

DOI:10.1145/3283458

Editors:
Heike Winschiers-Theophilus
Namibia University of Science and Technology Windhoek, Namibia
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Izak van Zyl
Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa
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Naska Goagoses
Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany
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Dharm Singh Jat
Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia
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Elefelious G. Belay
University of Milan, Italy
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Rita Orji
Dalhousie University, Canada
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Anicia Peters
Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia
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Med Salim Bouhlel
University of Sfax, Tunisia
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Nobert Jere
Walter Sisulu University, South Africa

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