Major influencing factors in young adolescents' privacy concerns and their subsequent behaviors in the online environment.AbstractAs a conceptual model explaining the determinants of privacy concerns, this study utilized three theoretical perspectives: social contract, risk perception, and self-efficacy perspective. This study also used risk coping strategies The German Freudian psychoanalyst Karen Horney defined four so-called coping strategies to define interpersonal relations, one describing psychologically healthy individuals, the others describing neurotic states. to explain behavioral behavioral pertaining to behavior. behavioral disorders see vice. behavioral seizure see psychomotor seizure. responses to privacy concerns. Survey data from 144 middle school students revealed that a higher level of risk perception caused by information disclosure led to more concerns over privacy, while a greater perception of benefits offered in information exchange resulted in less privacy concerns. Privacy self-efficacy appeared to be positively related to privacy knowledge, which in turn influenced privacy concerns. Subsequently, privacy concerns had direct impacts on risk-coping behaviors such as withholding Withholding Any tax that is taken directly out of an individual's wages or other income before he or she receives the funds. Notes: In other words, these funds are "withheld" from your wages. information, seeking social support or further information, or abstaining from using web sites. Implications for privacy education to protect young adolescents' online privacy were discussed. Seounmi Youn, Ph.D., Emerson College Emerson College was founded in 1880 by Charles Wesley Emerson as a "school of oratory," in Boston, Massachusetts. Emerson's main campus is located near the Boston Common, at the gateway to the Theatre District; it also maintains buildings in Los Angeles and the town of Well, (1) Endnotes (1) Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing Communication, Emerson College, 120 Boylston Street Boylston Street is the name of a major east-west thoroughfare in the city of Boston, Massachusetts and its western suburbs. It begins at its eastern end in central Boston as the continuation of Essex Street at the intersection of Tremont, and forms the southern boundary of Boston , Boston, MA 02116-4624, Ph: 617-824-8722, Fax: 617-824-8749, seounmi_han_youn@emerson.edu |
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