Research Article

An Integrative Behavioral Model of Information Security Policy Compliance

Table 5

Goodness-of-fit measure of the model.

  CommunalityRedundancy

Normative belief (NB) 0.888 
Response efficacy (RE) 0.921 
Cost of noncompliance (NC) 0.923 
Condemnation of condemners (CC) 0.926 
Self-efficacy (SE) 0.932 
Cost of compliance (CO) 0.770 
Intentions of compliance (IN)0.8160.9600.336
Benefit of compliance (BE) 0.870 
Neutralization 10.7350.221
Denial of responsibility (DR) 0.868 
Appeal to higher loyalties (AL) 0.935 
Attitude (AT)0.6110.8840.084
Defense of ubiquity (DU) 1 
Denial of injury (DI) 0.942 
Defense of necessity (DN) 0.907 
Metaphor of the ledger (ML) 0.957 

Average0.8090.9010.214
Fitness of the model0.857

Neutralization is a second-order construct.