Revisiting the Awareness–Behaviour Paradox: How Social Media Usage Patterns Increase Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities Among Ghanaian Undergraduate Students

This dataset supports the article “Revisiting the Awareness–Behaviour Paradox: How Social Media Usage Patterns Increase Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities Among Ghanaian Undergraduate Students.” It comprises survey data collected from undergraduate students enrolled in public and private universities in Ghana. The dataset includes measures of social media usage patterns, cybersecurity awareness, and self-reported cybersecurity vulnerability, alongside relevant demographic and contextual variables. Data were gathered using a structured questionnaire and analysed to examine the relationships between awareness, behaviour, and vulnerability in the context of everyday social media use. The dataset is suitable for replication, secondary analysis, and comparative research on cybersecurity behaviour among young adults in higher education, particularly within developing-country contexts.