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Measuring Social Privacy as a Value in a Multi-Country Sample from Germany, Spain, and France
Ketheeswaranathan, Sahila (2025) Measuring Social Privacy as a Value in a Multi-Country Sample from Germany, Spain, and France.
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| Abstract: | This study investigated the concept of social privacy as a personal value by developing and validating new items within the PVQ-RR framework. While the PVQ-RR captures general human values, it does not account for privacy-related values. Drawing on Burgoon’s (1982) theory and prior research by Russa (2024) and Markink (2024), this study focuses specifically on conceptualising and measuring social privacy, which is defined as the desire to manage one’s interpersonal boundaries and social interactions. Six newly developed social value items and six behavioural items were tested using a multi-country sample from Germany (N = 61), France (N = 28), and Spain (N = 20). Exploratory factor analysis revealed that only three of the six value items showed acceptable loadings, and of those, just one loaded strongly on the social privacy factor. This suggests that the construct is not yet well-measured, a challenge also observed in earlier studies. Nevertheless, social privacy values significantly predicted several privacy-related behaviours across countries, supporting the scale’s predictive validity. The findings suggest that while social privacy is a theoretically meaningful dimension, further refinement of its measurement is needed. Keywords: social privacy, privacy values, PVQ-RR, interpersonal boundaries |
| 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/107054 |
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