Lombardi Debora Benedetta, Ciceri Maria Rita
Department of Psychology, University of the Sacred Heart of Milan, Milan, Italy.
Eur J Psychol. 2016 Feb 29;12(1):115-36. doi: 10.5964/ejop.v12i1.948. eCollection 2016 Feb.
The purpose of the current study was to investigate the experience of privacy, focusing on its functional role in personal well-being. A sample (N = 180) comprised subjects between 18 and 50 years of age were asked to spontaneously provide accounts of their experiences with privacy and answer close-ended questions to acquire a description of a daily experience of privacy. The results showed the importance attributed to the function of privacy related to the "defense from social threats", and the twofold function of privacy related to an "achieved state of privacy", in the terms of both "system maintenance" and "system development". The results also shed light on the role of the environment in shaping one's experience of privacy. Specifically, the participants recognized more easily the function of defense from threats related to seeking privacy while interacting in digital environments, whereas they seemed to benefit from positive functions related to an achieved state of privacy in physical environments. The findings sustain the notion of privacy as a supportive condition for some psychological processes involved in the positive human functioning and confirm previous studies conducted on the role of privacy in human well-being.
本研究的目的是调查隐私体验，重点关注其在个人幸福中的功能作用。一个由18至50岁的受试者组成的样本（N = 180）被要求自发地讲述他们的隐私经历，并回答封闭式问题，以获取对日常隐私体验的描述。结果表明，在“抵御社会威胁”方面，隐私功能具有重要性；在“系统维护”和“系统发展”方面，与“实现的隐私状态”相关的隐私具有双重功能。结果还揭示了环境在塑造个人隐私体验中的作用。具体而言，参与者在数字环境中互动时，更容易认识到寻求隐私所带来的抵御威胁的功能，而在物理环境中，他们似乎从与实现的隐私状态相关的积极功能中受益。这些发现支持了隐私是人类积极功能中某些心理过程的支持性条件这一观点，并证实了先前关于隐私在人类幸福中作用的研究。
