The Impact of Information Technology Threat on IT Appropriation and IT Avoidance

Recently the interest in security threats is increasing caused by a cyber attack such as Distributed Denial of Service. However most of IS studies have been focused on TAM. Thus we intend to explain about the cognitive process of appropriation and avoidance of IT through coping behavior, when users perceive information technology threat such as danger of cyber terrorism, virus damage, hacking, exposure of personal information, information gap. As a result, this study shows that IT threat influences problem-focused coping and emotion-focused coping, problem-focused coping influences IT appropriation, and emotion-focused coping influences IT avoidance.