DOCUMENTATION,INFORMATION & KNOWLEDGE ›› 2016, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (2): 75-82.doi: 10.13366/j.dik.2016.02.075

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Review on Psychological Mechanism of Social Media User’s Privacy Concern

  

Abstract:

This paper studies the existing international journal articles on information privacy psychology, then summarizes and analyzes the research about privacy concern, and builds an integrated model of privacy concern. The model shows that: privacy concern is one of the most important concepts about online user’s privacy psychology; In terms of the difference among the relationship between privacy psychological concept and privacy concern, these concept can be divided into three categories: independent variables (privacy experience, privacy awareness, personality, demographic difference, and culture), dependent variables (regulation, and behavior reaction) and moderating variables (privacy calculus, and trust); And the basic theory of these articles can also be divided into three categories: independent variable research, dependent variable research, and moderating variable research. The previous studies have gained substantial achievement in the field of validating the relationship between privacy psychological concepts and privacy concern, the future research should focus on mechanism of dynamic privacy concern, group privacy concern, and so on.

Key words: Privacy concern, Privacy calculus, Privacy consciousness, Privacy experience, Privacy disclosure, User psychology