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Can Social Privacy as a Value be Measured Reliably within a Romanian and German Sample, and Can It Explain Different Privacy-Related Behaviors?
Russa, M.E. (2024) Can Social Privacy as a Value be Measured Reliably within a Romanian and German Sample, and Can It Explain Different Privacy-Related Behaviors?
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| Abstract: | In a world of rapidly developing technologies and constant novel applications, people tend to spend more time online, sharing details from their private lives. However, previous studies found that much of the literature addresses information breaches, and not necessarily boundary protection in online environments. For this reason, several authors raised awareness of the importance of social privacy in todays’ technological era (Knijnenburg et al., 2022). Social privacy, as explained by Burgoon (1982), is an elementary characteristic of privacy, which allows an individual to withdraw from social interactions, control undesirable conversations, and balance personal boundaries. Thus, the first aim of this paper is to investigates whether social privacy as a value is a distinct construct from the other two privacy values, observational and informational privacy, within a sample of Romanian and German respondents. As values influence perceptions, emotions, and behaviors (Schwartz et al., 2017b), the second goal of this study is to investigate the relation between social privacy as a value and three different privacy behaviors. An exploratory factor analysis showed that social privacy as a value is a distinct construct from the other two privacy values. Secondly, a linear model showed that there is a relation between social privacy as a value and privacy behaviors, but these results are not consistent in the Romanian and German subsamples. This study contributes to the measurement of social privacy as a value within Schwartz’ recently revised Portrait Value Questionnaire (PVQ-RR) (Schwartz & Cieciuch, 2021), adding to the topic of privacy as a value. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 77 psychology |
| Programme: | Psychology BSc (56604) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/100243 |
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