Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 629-638 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Journal of Adolescence |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Aug 2013 |
| Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health
- Social Psychology
- Developmental and Educational Psychology
- Psychiatry and Mental health
Keywords
- Information disclosure
- Narcissism
- Parental mediation
- Privacy concern
- Social anxiety
