Entropy (Aug 2019)

A Model of Perception of Privacy, Trust, and Self-Disclosure on Online Social Networks

  • Lili Nemec Zlatolas,
  • Tatjana Welzer,
  • Marko Hölbl,
  • Marjan Heričko,
  • Aida Kamišalić

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/e21080772
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 21, no. 8
p. 772

Abstract

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Online Social Networks are used widely, raising new issues in terms of privacy, trust, and self-disclosure. For a better understanding of these issues for Facebook users, a model was built that includes privacy value, privacy risk, trust, privacy control, privacy concerns, and self-disclosure. A total of 602 respondents participated in an online survey, and structural equation modeling was used to evaluate the model. The findings indicate significant relationships between the constructs in this study. The model from our study contributes new knowledge to privacy issues, trust and self-disclosure on Online Social Networks for other researchers or developers of online social networks.

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