A Two-Fold Study to Investigate Users’ Perception of IoT Information Sensitivity Levels and Their Willingness to Share the Information

2022 ◽  
pp. 87-107
Author(s):  
Sanonda Datta Gupta ◽  
Stephen Kaplan ◽  
Aubree Nygaard ◽  
Sepideh Ghanavati
Keyword(s):  
Information Sensitivity

Privacy Concern of Health Information Disclosure in mHealth: The Moderate Effect of Social Support (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuanyuan Dang ◽  
Shanshan Guo ◽  
Xitong Guo
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Perceived Health ◽  
Privacy Concern ◽  
Informational Support ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
Information Sensitivity ◽  
Moderate Effect

BACKGROUND The mobile health (mHealth) provides a new opportunity for patients’ disease prediction and health self-management. At the same time, privacy problems in mHealth have brought forth significant attention concerning patients' online health information disclosure and hindered mHealth development. OBJECTIVE Privacy calculus theory (PCT) has been widely used to understand personal information disclosure behaviors with the basic assumption of a national and linear decision-making process. However, people’s cognitive behavior processes are complex and mutual. In attempting to close this knowledge gap, we further optimize the information disclosure model of patients based on PCT by identifying the mutual relationship between costs (privacy concerns) and benefits. Social support, which has been proved to be a distinct and significant disclosure benefit of mHealth, was chosen to be the representative benefit of information disclosure in mHealth. METHODS From an individual perspective, a structural equation model with privacy concerns, health information disclosure intention in mHealth, and social support from mHealth has been examined. RESULTS 253 randomly selected participants provided validated questionnaire. The result indicated that perceived health information sensitivity positively enhances the privacy concern (0.505, p<0.01), and higher privacy concern levels will decrease the health information disclosure intention (-0.338, p<0.01). Various aspects of individual characters influence perceived health information sensitivity in different ways. The informational support has a negatively moderate on reduce the positive effect between perceived health information sensitivity and privacy concerns (-0.171, p<0.1) and will decrease the negative effect between privacy concerns and health information disclosure intention(-0.105, p<0.1). However, emotional support has no directly moderate effect on both privacy concerns and health information disclosure intention. CONCLUSIONS The results indicate that social support can be regarded as a disutility reducer, that is, on the one hand, it reduces the privacy concerns of patients; on the other hand, it also reduces the negative impact of privacy concerns on information disclosure intention. Moreover, the moderate effect of social support is partially supported. Informational support, one demission of social support, is significant, while the other demission, emotional support, is not significant in mHealth. Furthermore, the results are different among patients with different individual characteristics. This study also provides specific theoretical and practical implications to enhance the development of mHealth.

scholarly journals A Three-way Interaction Model of Information Withholding: Investigating the Role of Information Sensitivity, Prevention Focus, and Interdependent Self-Construal

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongqiang Sun ◽  
Dina Liu ◽  
Nan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Interaction Model ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Prevention Focus ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
Interdependent Self ◽  
Information Sensitivity ◽  
Information Withholding

Abstract Although user information disclosure behavior in the context of social network service(SNS) has been well studied in previous literature, there is a lack of understanding about user information withholding behavior. To fill this research gap, the present study assumes that there might be a three-way interaction among information sensitivity, prevention focus, and interdependent self-construal regarding information withholding. The proposed model is empirically tested through an online survey of 479 users in the context of WeChat, one of the most popular SNSs in China. The results of hierarchical regression analysis verify the three-way interaction that prevention focus positively moderates the relationship between information sensitivity and information withholding, and interdependent self-construal strengthens the moderating effect of prevention focus. Findings in light of theoretical and practical implications as well as limitations of the study are discussed.

scholarly journals Internet users’ perceptions of information sensitivity – insights from Germany

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 142-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva-Maria Schomakers ◽  
Chantal Lidynia ◽  
Dirk Müllmann ◽  
Martina Ziefle
Keyword(s):  
Internet Users ◽  
Information Sensitivity

Flexible Contextualism about Deontic Modals: A Puzzle about Information-Sensitivity

Inquiry ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 56 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 149-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.L. Dowell
Keyword(s):  
Deontic Modals ◽  
Information Sensitivity

“I Know Correlation Doesn’t Prove Causation, but . . .”: Are We Jumping to Unfounded Conclusions About the Causes of Sexual Offending?

Sexual Abuse ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin L. Nunes ◽  
Chloe I. Pedneault ◽  
W. Eric Filleter ◽  
Sacha Maimone ◽  
Carolyn Blank ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Sexual Offending ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Methodological Rigor ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Differences Of Opinion ◽  
Information Sensitivity ◽  
Effectiveness And Efficiency

Identifying causes of sexual offending is the foundation of effective and efficient assessment, intervention, and policy aimed at reducing sexual offending. However, studies vary in methodological rigor and the inferences they support, and there are differences of opinion about the conclusions that can be drawn from ambiguous evidence. To explore how researchers in this area interpret the available empirical evidence, we asked authors of articles published in relevant specialized journals to identify (a) an important factor that may lead to sexual offending, (b) a study providing evidence of a relationship between that factor and sexual offending, and (c) the inferences supported by that study. Many participants seemed to endorse causal interpretations and conclusions that went beyond the methodological rigor of the study they identified. Our findings suggest that some researchers may not be adequately considering methodological issues when making inferences about the causes of sexual offending. Although it is difficult to conduct research in this area and all research designs can provide valuable information, sensitivity to the limits methodology places on inferences is important for the sake of accuracy and integrity, and to stimulate more informative research. We propose that increasing attention to methodology in the research community through better training and standards will advance scientific knowledge about the causes of sexual offending, and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of practice and policy.

scholarly journals Distributed Computing with Advice: Information Sensitivity of Graph Coloring

2007 ◽  
pp. 231-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Fraigniaud ◽  
Cyril Gavoille ◽  
David Ilcinkas ◽  
Andrzej Pelc
Keyword(s):  
Distributed Computing ◽  
Graph Coloring ◽  
Information Sensitivity

Will it be Disclosure or Fabrication of Personal Information?

2010 ◽  
pp. 231-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xun Li ◽  
Radhika Santhanam
Keyword(s):  
Personal Information ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Job Applicants ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Hiring Decisions ◽  
Job Applicant ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
Willingness To Disclose ◽  
Information Sensitivity ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

Individuals are increasingly reluctant to disclose personal data and sometimes even intentionally fabricate information to avoid the risk of having it compromised. In this context, organizations face an acute dilemma: they must obtain accurate job applicant information in order to make good hiring decisions, but potential employees may be reluctant to provide accurate information because they fear it could be used for other purposes. Building on theoretical foundations from social cognition and persuasion theory, we propose that, depending on levels of privacy concerns, organizations could use appropriate strategies to persuade job applicants to provide accurate information. We conducted a laboratory experiment to examine the effects of two different persuasion strategies on prospective employees’ willingness to disclose information, measured as their intentions to disclose or falsify information. Our results show support for our suggestion As part of this study, we propose the term information sensitivity to identify the types of personal information that potential employees are most reluctant to disclose.

scholarly journals Is Inflation Default? The Role of Information in Debt Crises

2019 ◽  
Vol 109 (10) ◽  
pp. 3556-3584
Author(s):  
Marco Bassetto ◽  
Carlo Galli
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Currency ◽  
Secondary Market ◽  
Bad News ◽  
Differential Information ◽  
Inflation Risk ◽  
Information Sensitivity ◽  
The 2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
Informed Group ◽  
Role Of Information

We study the information sensitivity of government debt denominated in domestic versus foreign currency: the former is subject to inflation risk and the latter to default. Default only affects sophisticated bond traders, whereas inflation concerns a larger and less informed group. Within a two-period Bayesian trading game, differential information manifests itself in the secondary market, and we display conditions under which debt prices are more resilient to bad news even in the primary market, where only sophisticated players operate. Our results can explain debt prices across countries following the 2008 financial crisis, and also provide a theory of “original sin.” (JEL D84, F34, H63)

Information Sensitivity Typology: Mapping the Degree and Type of Risk Consumers Perceive in Personal Data Sharing

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
George R. Milne ◽  
George Pettinico ◽  
Fatima M. Hajjat ◽  
Ereni Markos
Keyword(s):  
Data Sharing ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Information Sensitivity
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