The impact of common mental health concerns on experiences of online security: 'being' vs 'feeling' secure

尽管技术安全研究从其组织根源中分支出来，但该领域的研究往往集中在“用户”的“典型”人群上。这就带来了这样一个问题：对于那些不适合“典型用户”角色的人来说，个人与技术交互的方式是否存在差异，因此安全性是否存在差异。此外，近年来，人们一直在讨论网络安全建议和行动的责任是如何增加的：确保设备安全以及不发生违规行为的责任越来越多地落在个人身上，而不管他们的情况或能力如何。对于那些不属于通常在文献中看到的“典型用户”的个人来说，这可能会产生严重的后果，其影响范围远远超过与技术进行单独交互的个人。其中一组用户是残疾人或有缺陷的人。本论文的重点是残疾的一个亚组，其中的文献尚未探讨社会心理残疾，或心理健康问题。本文将通过系统的文献综述，首先考虑残疾和安全是如何被研究的，以及研究的重点在哪里。据此，将进行另一项文献综述，特别关注心理健康和网络安全如何在文献中进行讨论。这些文献综述将为两项探索性工作奠定基础，这两项工作将调查常见的心理健康问题对个人网络安全体验的影响。这些工作的第一部分将是一项在线调查，以获得感知威胁和风险的快照，以及在线感觉（不）安全的体验。由于心理健康的易变性，第二项研究将试图通过日记研究来绘制安全感的潜在变化，以提供更丰富的信息，了解某人的心理健康如何影响他们在网上的安全感。”

Despite technological security research branching out of its organisational roots, research in this area tends to focus on the 'typical' population of 'users'. This brings about the question of whether there is a difference in the way individuals interact with technology, and hence security, for those who do not fit they 'typical user' role. Further to this, in recent years there has been discussion on how the responsibilisation of cybersecurity advice and action has increased: the responsibility of making sure a device is secure, and that breaches do not occur is increasingly placed on the individual, regardless of their circumstance or ability. For those individuals who do not fall into the 'typical user' usually seen within the literature, this may have severe consequences, which have a reach further than the sole person interaction with the technology. One such group of users are those who are disabled or who have an impairment. This thesis focuses on a subgroup of disability which the literature has yet to explore psychosocial disability, or mental health concerns. This thesis will begin by considering how disability and security have been research previously, and where the focus has been, through a systematic literature review. Informed by this, another literature review will be undertaken, specifically focussing on how mental health and online security, and been discussed within the literature. These literature reviews will lay the foundations for two pieces of exploratory work investigating the effects of common mental health concerns on individuals' experiences of being secure online. The first of these pieces of work will be an online survey, to gain a snapshot of perceived threats and risk, as well as experiences of feeling (un)safe online. Due to the changable nature of mental health, the second study will seek to chart potential changes in feelings of safety, through means of a diary study, to provider richer information about how someone's mental health can affect how safe they feel online."