Is lurking an anxiety-masking strategy on social media sites? The effects of lurking and computer anxiety on explaining information privacy concern on social media platforms

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Highlights:

• As users’ lurking tendency increases their CFSMIP (concern for social media information privacy) decreases.

• As users’ computer anxiety increases, their tendency to lurk increases.

• As users’ computer anxiety increases, their CFSMIP increases.

• CFSMIP mediated the relationship between lurking and behavioral intentions.

• CFSMIP mediated the relationship between computer anxiety and behavioral intentions.

摘要

•As users’ lurking tendency increases their CFSMIP (concern for social media information privacy) decreases.•As users’ computer anxiety increases, their tendency to lurk increases.•As users’ computer anxiety increases, their CFSMIP increases.•CFSMIP mediated the relationship between lurking and behavioral intentions.•CFSMIP mediated the relationship between computer anxiety and behavioral intentions.

论文关键词:Computer anxiety,Social media,Lurking,Privacy,Computer-mediated communication

论文评审过程:Available online 24 March 2015.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.02.062