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Privacy concerns can stress you out: Investigating the reciprocal relationship between mobile social media privacy concerns and perceived stress.

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Mobile social media have become a widespread means to participate in everyday social and professional life. These platforms stimulate the disclosure and exchange of personal information, which implies certain privacy risks. While past scholarship has extracted various predictors and consequences of online privacy concerns, there is to date no empirical investigation of its relationship with perceived stress. Using a longitudinal panel study, we examined the reciprocal relationship between mobile social media privacy concerns and perceived stress. Results supported the hypothesis that mobile social media privacy concerns at T1 are associated with higher perceived stress at T2. However, we found no evidence for the reverse association, i.e., perceived stress at T1 was not related to mobile social media privacy concerns at T2. The findings are discussed against the background of the Antecedents Privacy Concerns Outcome Model as well as the Privacy Calculus Model.
Tijdschrift: Communications: the European Journal of Communication Research
ISSN: 0341-2059
Issue: 3
Volume: 47
Pagina's: 327 - 349
Jaar van publicatie:2022
Toegankelijkheid:Open