Privacy concern on social network sites: the role of protection motivation, trust and risk

For someone to be acknowledged in Social Network Sites (SNS), he/she needs to reveal his/her identity. How far personal information SNS users want to disclose is determined by their assessment of threat and ability to control the information. By adopting protection motivation theory (PMT) as a fra...

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Main Authors: Salleh, Norsaremah, Hussein, Ramlah, Mohamed, Norshidah, Abdul Karim, Nor Shahriza, Ahlan, Abdul Rahman, Aditiawarman, Umar
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2012
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spelling iium-275352015-05-26T07:18:27Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/27535/ Privacy concern on social network sites: the role of protection motivation, trust and risk Salleh, Norsaremah Hussein, Ramlah Mohamed, Norshidah Abdul Karim, Nor Shahriza Ahlan, Abdul Rahman Aditiawarman, Umar Q Science (General) For someone to be acknowledged in Social Network Sites (SNS), he/she needs to reveal his/her identity. How far personal information SNS users want to disclose is determined by their assessment of threat and ability to control the information. By adopting protection motivation theory (PMT) as a framework, incorporated with trust and risk factor, this study revealed trust on SNS and perceived benefits influenced information disclosure behaviour. Surprisingly, privacy concern and perceived risk were found not to be related to information disclosure behaviour. Using self-administered questionnaire, 486 undergraduate students from five different universities in Malaysia were involved in this study. 2012-05-09 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/27535/1/Salleh_et_al_%282012%29_IBIMA.pdf Salleh, Norsaremah and Hussein, Ramlah and Mohamed, Norshidah and Abdul Karim, Nor Shahriza and Ahlan, Abdul Rahman and Aditiawarman, Umar (2012) Privacy concern on social network sites: the role of protection motivation, trust and risk. In: 18th IBIMA Conference, 9-10 May 2012, Istanbul, Turkey . http://www.ibima.org/TR2012/index.html
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Salleh, Norsaremah
Hussein, Ramlah
Mohamed, Norshidah
Abdul Karim, Nor Shahriza
Ahlan, Abdul Rahman
Aditiawarman, Umar
Privacy concern on social network sites: the role of protection motivation, trust and risk
description For someone to be acknowledged in Social Network Sites (SNS), he/she needs to reveal his/her identity. How far personal information SNS users want to disclose is determined by their assessment of threat and ability to control the information. By adopting protection motivation theory (PMT) as a framework, incorporated with trust and risk factor, this study revealed trust on SNS and perceived benefits influenced information disclosure behaviour. Surprisingly, privacy concern and perceived risk were found not to be related to information disclosure behaviour. Using self-administered questionnaire, 486 undergraduate students from five different universities in Malaysia were involved in this study.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Salleh, Norsaremah
Hussein, Ramlah
Mohamed, Norshidah
Abdul Karim, Nor Shahriza
Ahlan, Abdul Rahman
Aditiawarman, Umar
author_facet Salleh, Norsaremah
Hussein, Ramlah
Mohamed, Norshidah
Abdul Karim, Nor Shahriza
Ahlan, Abdul Rahman
Aditiawarman, Umar
author_sort Salleh, Norsaremah
title Privacy concern on social network sites: the role of protection motivation, trust and risk
title_short Privacy concern on social network sites: the role of protection motivation, trust and risk
title_full Privacy concern on social network sites: the role of protection motivation, trust and risk
title_fullStr Privacy concern on social network sites: the role of protection motivation, trust and risk
title_full_unstemmed Privacy concern on social network sites: the role of protection motivation, trust and risk
title_sort privacy concern on social network sites: the role of protection motivation, trust and risk
publishDate 2012
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/27535/
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http://irep.iium.edu.my/27535/1/Salleh_et_al_%282012%29_IBIMA.pdf
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