Cognitive, personality, and social factors associated with adolescents' online personal information disclosure

The current study aims to understand the factors that influence adolescents' disclosure of personally identifiable information (PII) on social networking sites (SNSs). A survey was conducted among 780 adolescent participants (between 13 and 18) who were Facebook users. Structural equation model...

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Main Authors: Lwin, May Oo, Ang, Rebecca P., Liu, Cong
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
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Published: 2013
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-997012020-03-07T12:15:51Z Cognitive, personality, and social factors associated with adolescents' online personal information disclosure Lwin, May Oo Ang, Rebecca P. Liu, Cong School of Humanities and Social Sciences Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information Psychology Communication and Information The current study aims to understand the factors that influence adolescents' disclosure of personally identifiable information (PII) on social networking sites (SNSs). A survey was conducted among 780 adolescent participants (between 13 and 18) who were Facebook users. Structural equation modeling was used for analyzing the data and obtaining an overarching model that include cognitive, personality, and social factors that influence adolescents' PII disclosure. Results showed privacy concern as the cognitive factor reduces adolescents' PII disclosure and it serves as a potential mediator for personality and social factors. Amongst personality factors, narcissism was found to directly increase PII disclosure, and social anxiety indirectly decreases PII disclosure by increasing privacy concern. Amongst social factors, active parental mediation decreases PII disclosure directly and indirectly by increasing privacy concern. Restrictive parental mediation decreases PII disclosure only indirectly by increasing privacy concern. Implications of the findings to parents, educators, and policy makers were discussed. 2013-11-08T07:00:08Z 2019-12-06T20:10:32Z 2013-11-08T07:00:08Z 2019-12-06T20:10:32Z 2013 2013 Journal Article Liu, C., Ang, R. P., & Lwin, M. O. (2013). Cognitive, personality, and social factors associated with adolescents' online personal information disclosure. Journal of Adolescence, 36(4), 629-638. 0140-1971 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/99701 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/17505 10.1016/j.adolescence.2013.03.016 en Journal of adolescence
institution Nanyang Technological University
building NTU Library
country Singapore
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language English
topic Psychology
Communication and Information
spellingShingle Psychology
Communication and Information
Lwin, May Oo
Ang, Rebecca P.
Liu, Cong
Cognitive, personality, and social factors associated with adolescents' online personal information disclosure
description The current study aims to understand the factors that influence adolescents' disclosure of personally identifiable information (PII) on social networking sites (SNSs). A survey was conducted among 780 adolescent participants (between 13 and 18) who were Facebook users. Structural equation modeling was used for analyzing the data and obtaining an overarching model that include cognitive, personality, and social factors that influence adolescents' PII disclosure. Results showed privacy concern as the cognitive factor reduces adolescents' PII disclosure and it serves as a potential mediator for personality and social factors. Amongst personality factors, narcissism was found to directly increase PII disclosure, and social anxiety indirectly decreases PII disclosure by increasing privacy concern. Amongst social factors, active parental mediation decreases PII disclosure directly and indirectly by increasing privacy concern. Restrictive parental mediation decreases PII disclosure only indirectly by increasing privacy concern. Implications of the findings to parents, educators, and policy makers were discussed.
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Lwin, May Oo
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Ang, Rebecca P.
Liu, Cong
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title Cognitive, personality, and social factors associated with adolescents' online personal information disclosure
title_short Cognitive, personality, and social factors associated with adolescents' online personal information disclosure
title_full Cognitive, personality, and social factors associated with adolescents' online personal information disclosure
title_fullStr Cognitive, personality, and social factors associated with adolescents' online personal information disclosure
title_full_unstemmed Cognitive, personality, and social factors associated with adolescents' online personal information disclosure
title_sort cognitive, personality, and social factors associated with adolescents' online personal information disclosure
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