The effects of motivations, trust, and privacy concern in social networking

Shi-Woei Lin () and Yu-Cheng Liu ()

Service Business, 2012, vol. 6, issue 4, 424 pages

Abstract: This study proposes and tests a model that uses privacy concern, trust, and motivations to explain the process leading to information disclosure and the intensity of social network services (SNS) use. Use of SNSs has been shown in our investigation to be negatively correlated to a user’s privacy concern but positively correlated to a user’s trust and motivations. Furthermore, by using a hierarchical regression model, we show that trust accounts for a significant additional amount of variance in SNS use after controlling the variance explained by privacy concern. In addition, motivation accounts for a significant additional amount of variance in SNS use after controlling the variance explained by both privacy concern and trust. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2012

Keywords: Social network service (SNS); Motivation; Trust; Privacy concern; Information disclosure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/s11628-012-0158-6

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