Survey about protection motivation on social networking sites, 2018

DOI

Aim of the study is to explore factors associated with protection motivation of users on social networking sites. The objective of this study was to determine how psychological ownership, privacy concerns, information sensitivity, descriptive norm, perceived regulation, surveillance concerns, perceived vulnerability, perceived severity, and perceived threats affect protection motivation and secure behavior of users on social networking sites. The study employed a cross-sectional research design. The survey was conducted among members of 15 groups of Slovenian-speaking users of the social network Facebook, between June and November 2018. The survey was completed by 308 respondents, but the analysis was performed only on 274 units, which gave at least one response to constructs: privacy concerns, information sensitivity, protection motivation, descriptive norm, perceived regulation, surveillance concerns, perceived vulnerability, perceived severity and perceived threats. The survey questionnaire was developed in English. A Slovenian translation of the survey questionnaire is available. The data file is available in Slovenian and English.

Non-probability: AvailabilityNonprobability.Availability

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire.CAWI

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.17898/ADP_VARFB18_V1
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=846de009e5382ce68632b5efa75336ddc3e066595306af5e4cd290699320c528
Provenance
Creator Fujs, Damjan; Mihelič, Anže; Vrhovec, Simon
Publisher Arhiv družboslovnih podatkov = Social Science Data Archives
Publication Year 2024
Funding Reference University of Maribor, Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security
Rights ADP, 2024; The data is accessible for scientific purposes only and licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution + NonCommercial 4.0 International Licence. Users may use the data only for the purposes stated in the registration form and in accordance with professional codes of ethics. Users expressly agree to maintain the confidentiality of the data and to conduct analyses without attempting to identify the individuals and institutions covered by the materials.
OpenAccess true
Contact http://www.adp.fdv.uni-lj.si/
Representation
Resource Type NumericNumeric
Discipline Criminology; Jurisprudence; Social and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial Coverage Slovenia; Slovenia