Peer privacy protection motivation and action on social networking sites: Privacy self-efficacy and information security as moderators

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Highlights:

• Applying the protection motivation theory concept for severity and susceptibility of a perceived threat to peer privacy protection actions.

• Understanding how the perception of peer online relationships influences privacy protection action against peer information.

• Using privacy disclosure, informal sanction, and online flaming as formative indicators to measure perceived threat.

• Investigating how the online peer relationship factors increase SNSs users’ perception of protection motivation.

• Testing the moderating effects of privacy self-efficacy and information security awareness on the relationship between protection motivation and privacy protection action.

摘要

•Applying the protection motivation theory concept for severity and susceptibility of a perceived threat to peer privacy protection actions.•Understanding how the perception of peer online relationships influences privacy protection action against peer information.•Using privacy disclosure, informal sanction, and online flaming as formative indicators to measure perceived threat.•Investigating how the online peer relationship factors increase SNSs users’ perception of protection motivation.•Testing the moderating effects of privacy self-efficacy and information security awareness on the relationship between protection motivation and privacy protection action.

论文关键词:Protection motivation theory,Peer privacy disclosure,Online peer relationship,Privacy self-efficacy,Information security awareness

论文评审过程:Received 18 March 2021, Revised 7 July 2022, Accepted 7 July 2022, Available online 19 July 2022, Version of Record 21 July 2022.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elerap.2022.101176