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Changing internet users’ behaviors toward digital piracy has been challenging for decades. Therefore, in an attempt to understand digital piracy behaviors, the researchers have included a variety of behavioral psychology theories in their literature. Using theories has resulted in a debate about which theories are relevant in explaining digital piracy behaviors. To address this question, the researchers adopted the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) to demonstrate the link between constructs from theories and constructs extracted from the TDF. Following a systematic literature review approach, the researchers reviewed 19 papers related to digital piracy, where various behavioral theories were identified, and from them, numerous constructs were derived. The purpose of the current study is to provide a link between digital piracy behavior and behavioral constructs from theories and to validate them utilizing a Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF).
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The researchers declare no conflict of interest. Professor Elmarie Kritzinger supervised the master’s full dissertation, from which this paper was developed. Both authors contributed to all sections of the paper and approved its final version.
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Fakude, N., Kritzinger, E. (2022). Utilization of Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) to Validate the Digital Piracy Behaviour Constructs – A Systematic Literature Review Study. In: Hsieh, SY., Hung, LJ., Klasing, R., Lee, CW., Peng, SL. (eds) New Trends in Computer Technologies and Applications. ICS 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1723. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9582-8_55
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