Division of Psychology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 14 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637332.
J Adolesc. 2013 Aug;36(4):629-38. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2013.03.016. Epub 2013 May 14.
The current study aims to understand the factors that influence adolescents' disclosure of personally identifiable information (PII) on social networking sites (SNSs). A survey was conducted among 780 adolescent participants (between 13 and 18) who were Facebook users. Structural equation modeling was used for analyzing the data and obtaining an overarching model that include cognitive, personality, and social factors that influence adolescents' PII disclosure. Results showed privacy concern as the cognitive factor reduces adolescents' PII disclosure and it serves as a potential mediator for personality and social factors. Amongst personality factors, narcissism was found to directly increase PII disclosure, and social anxiety indirectly decreases PII disclosure by increasing privacy concern. Amongst social factors, active parental mediation decreases PII disclosure directly and indirectly by increasing privacy concern. Restrictive parental mediation decreases PII disclosure only indirectly by increasing privacy concern. Implications of the findings to parents, educators, and policy makers were discussed.
本研究旨在了解影响青少年在社交网站 (SNS) 上披露个人身份信息 (PII) 的因素。对 780 名青少年（年龄在 13 至 18 岁之间）进行了一项调查，这些青少年是 Facebook 用户。结构方程模型用于分析数据并获得一个总体模型，该模型包括影响青少年 PII 披露的认知、个性和社会因素。结果表明，隐私关注作为认知因素减少了青少年的 PII 披露，并且作为个性和社会因素的潜在中介。在个性因素中，自恋被发现直接增加 PII 披露，而社交焦虑通过增加隐私关注间接减少 PII 披露。在社会因素中，积极的家长调解直接和间接地通过增加隐私关注来减少 PII 披露。限制家长调解仅通过增加隐私关注间接减少 PII 披露。讨论了这些发现对家长、教育工作者和政策制定者的意义。
