UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA
FACULTY OF ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE & POLICY STUDIES
FACTORS INFLUENCING CYBERCRIME AMONG HIGHER INSTITUTIONS STUDENTS IN MALAYSIA
Name of Students:
Muhammad Syafiq bin Hairul Azhar (2019230774)
Aliyah binti Rostani (2019612356)
Name of Supervisor Dr Mazlan bin Che Soh
AUGUST 2022
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Alhamdulillah, all the praise to Allah for giving us good health and giving a strength to finish our study. Completing research during pandemic is very challenging to us especially with online distance learning that build barriers between us and our supervisor. We are profoundly grateful to Dr Mazlan Che Soh as our supervisor, for his guidance, encouragement, patience, and support. We consider ourselves very fortunate to be able to work with a lecturer like him, who is very considerate and motivating. We would not be able to complete our research work in UiTM without his offering to conduct this study.
It is already 12 month which second semester with our supervisor and we are grateful
for the invaluable support of positive comments and advice during the experiment. It is an
absolute delight to have him as our research survey supervisor. Besides, as our lecturer for
ADS511 and ADS555, we would like to express our gratitude to Sir Mohd Ramlan bin Mohd
Arshad and Dr Nor Hidayanah. They are very helpful in providing information and assistance
for these two semester. We also want to thank our families for their consistent support in the
term of mentality and physicality and for recognizing our responsibility as a student. Our
sincere thanks to our friends also helped us to share the research study results. Besides,
throughout these semesters, we also owe our deepest thanks to those who directly and indirectly
supported us during the research. Thank you.
ABSTRACT
This study was carried out to investigate the factors influencing cybercrime among higher
institutions students in Malaysia. The awareness level, peer influence, technology inclination
and economic situation were the factors identified in this research study. The research goal of
this study is to investigate the link between all the factors that influencing cybercrime among
higher institutions students in Malaysia. By using Quantitative Sampling technique, a total 273
respondents were given a series of questions to complete online. The respondents are primarily
Malaysians. All responses from respondents be broke down using IBM SPSS Statistics 25 to
examine the link between these four characteristics and factors influencing cybercrime among
higher institutions students in Malaysia. All the previous studies were shown to have a positive
significant association with the factors influencing cybercrime among higher institutions
students in Malaysia.
TABLE OF CONTENT
CHAPTER 1 ... 1
1.1 Introduction ... 1
1.2 Problem statement ... 2
1.3 Research Questions ... 4
1.4 Research Objectives ... 5
1.5 Scope of Study ... 5
1.6 Significance of the proposed study ... 6
1.7 Definition of terms, terminology and concepts ... 7
CHAPTER 2 ... 10
LITERATURE REVIEW & CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK ... 10
2.1 Cybercrime Concept ... 10
2.2 Cybercrime at global perspective ... 11
2.3 Cybercrime in Malaysia ... 13
2.4 The factors influencing cybercrime among higher institution students... 15
2.4.1 Awareness level ... 15
2.4.2 Peer Influence ... 15
2.4.3 Technology Inclination ... 16
2.4.4 Economic Situation ... 18
2.5 Conceptual Framework ... 20
2.6 Hypothesis Development ... 21
CHAPTER 3 ... 24
RESEARCH METHOD ... 24
3.1 Research design ... 24
3.2 Unit/level of analysis ... 25
3.3 Sample size ... 25
3.4 Sampling technique ... 26
3.5 Measurement/Instrumentation ... 27
3.6 Data collection ... 29
3.7 Data analysis ... 30
3.8 Pilot study ... 31
CHAPTER 4 ... 32
FINDINGS ... 32
4.0 Introduction ... 32
4.1 Demographic Profile ... 32
4.2 Reliability test ... 35
4.3 Normality test ... 35
4.4 Main findings ... 36
4.4.1 To identify the awareness level of cybercrime issue among higher institutions student in Malaysia ... 36
4.4.2 To determine the relationship between peer influence toward the factor influencing cybercrime issue among higher institutions students in Malaysia ... 37
4.4.3 To determine the relationship between technology inclination toward the factor influencing cybercrime issue among higher institutions students in Malaysia ... 38
4.4.4 To determine the relationship between economic situation toward the factor influencing cybercrime issue among higher institutions students in Malaysia ... 39
4.5 Summary of findings ... 40
CHAPTER 5 ... 41
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION ... 41
5.1 Introduction ... 41
5.2 Summary of study ... 41
5.3 Summary of research objectives ... 43
5.3.1 To identify the awareness level of cybercrime issue among higher institutions student in Malaysia ... 43
5.3.2 To determine the relationship between peer influence and factor influencing cybercrime issue among higher institutions students in Malaysia. ... 43
5.3.3 To determine the relationship between technology inclination and factor influencing cybercrime issue among higher institutions students in Malaysia. ... 43
5.3.4 To determine the relationship between economic situation toward the factor influencing cybercrime issue among higher institutions students in Malaysia. ... 44
5.4 Recommendation of the study ... 44
5.4.1 Parents improve on monitoring students’ peer selection ... 44
5.4.2 Make use technology knowledge in positive way ... 45
5.5 Research limitation and future suggestion ... 45
5.5.1 Limited sample size ... 45
5.5.2 Weakness of quantitative research ... 46
5.5.3 Limited variables ... 46
5.6 Conclusion ... 47
6.0 REFERENCES ... 48 7.0 APPENDIXES ... 50-61
