TY - JOUR
T1 - Predicting Facebook users' online privacy protection
T2 - Risk, trust, norm focus theory, and the theory of planned behavior
AU - Saeri, Alexander K.
AU - Ogilvie, Claudette
AU - La Macchia, Stephen T.
AU - Smith, Joanne R.
AU - Louis, Winnifred R.
PY - 2014/7/4
Y1 - 2014/7/4
N2 - The present research adopts an extended theory of the planned behavior model that included descriptive norms, risk, and trust to investigate online privacy protection in Facebook users. Facebook users (N = 119) completed a questionnaire assessing their attitude, subjective injunctive norm, subjective descriptive norm, perceived behavioral control, implicit perceived risk, trust of other Facebook users, and intentions toward protecting their privacy online. Behavior was measured indirectly 2 weeks after the study. The data show partial support for the theory of planned behavior and strong support for the independence of subjective injunctive and descriptive norms. Risk also uniquely predicted intentions over and above the theory of planned behavior, but there were no unique effects of trust on intentions, nor of risk or trust on behavior. Implications are discussed. ©
AB - The present research adopts an extended theory of the planned behavior model that included descriptive norms, risk, and trust to investigate online privacy protection in Facebook users. Facebook users (N = 119) completed a questionnaire assessing their attitude, subjective injunctive norm, subjective descriptive norm, perceived behavioral control, implicit perceived risk, trust of other Facebook users, and intentions toward protecting their privacy online. Behavior was measured indirectly 2 weeks after the study. The data show partial support for the theory of planned behavior and strong support for the independence of subjective injunctive and descriptive norms. Risk also uniquely predicted intentions over and above the theory of planned behavior, but there were no unique effects of trust on intentions, nor of risk or trust on behavior. Implications are discussed. ©
KW - Facebook
KW - online privacy
KW - theory of planned behavior
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84903121334&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/00224545.2014.914881
DO - 10.1080/00224545.2014.914881
M3 - Article
C2 - 25154118
AN - SCOPUS:84903121334
SN - 0022-4545
VL - 154
SP - 352
EP - 369
JO - Journal of Social Psychology
JF - Journal of Social Psychology
IS - 4
ER -