TY  - JOUR
T1  - Adventurism, Information Technology Self-Efficacy and Age as Predictors of Cybercrime
among University Undergraduates
AU - Cletus Offor, Nwabueze 
JO  - International Journal of Soft Computing
VL  - 16
IS  - 1
SP  - 9
EP  - 19
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-9503
DO  - ijscomp.2021.9.19
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ijscomp.2021.9.19
KW  - information technology
KW  -Adventurism
KW  -age
KW  -cybercrime
KW  -predictors
AB  - The study investigated adventurism,
information technology self-efficacy and age as predictors
of cybercrime among undergraduates of Imo State
University. Three hypothesis were postulated and tested.
Two hundred participants were selected from four student
hostel alliances: Bishop’s Court Hostel Alliance, Front
Gate Hostel Alliance, Aladinma Hostel Alliance and
Amawire Hostel Alliances using simple random and
convenience sampling techniques. Their age ranged
between 18 and 30 years with a mean age of 24.80 and a
standard deviation of 2.96. Three instruments;
Information Technology Self-Efficacy scale, Adventurism
Scale and Cybercrime scale were used to collect data for
the study. Data on age was collected using the personal
data column on the instruments. The design of the study
was cross-sectional survey design while multiple
regression statistics was used to analyze the data. The
results showed that adventurism and information
technology self-efficacy significantly and inversely
predict cybercrime while age directly and significantly
predicts cyber crime. The result equally revealed that
jointly adventurism, information technology self-efficacy
and age also significantly predict cybercrime. Based on
these findings, the significance of the study is that parents
and education authorities should intensify efforts on
ethical training and moral guidance to youths concerning
their exploration with computer and internet services. The
researcher recommends that government and corporate
institutions need to increase enlightenment on the dangers
of involvement in cybercrime to youth development.
ER  -