Psychological Factors Affecting on the Culture and Awareness of Cyber Security in During of Covid-19 Outbreak

The aim of this study was to investigate the psychological factors affecting the culture and awareness of cyber security in the period of Covid-19 outbreak by qualitative method and theme analysis. Research data from upstream documents that include all valid articles published in 2020 to 2022 inside and outside the country, with 4 keywords (culture, awareness, cyber security, psychological factors) in the databases Civilica, Noormags, Magiran, google scholar, science direct and academia have been collected and reviewed in the framework of MAXQDA software. The criteria for entering articles in the research was the applicable content for the research question and studies related to the target variable and the criteria for excluding abstracts, book chapters, short reports and lack of access to the full text of the article. Validity was assessed using content validity and data reliability was estimated using Holstie method. Findings showed that out of 45 themes identified were formed from the coding of upstream documents and texts, 6 sub-themes (psychological, behavioral, family-social, economic, legal and technical). According to the findings, among all the identified sub-themes, the most themes were related to psychological themes (16 themes) in which the themes of self-efficacy, attachment, emotional stress, emotions, thoughts and beliefs, attitudes, motivation, personality traits and health Psychics were topics of particular importance.