Impact of Social Interaction on User Privacy Information Disclosure in Knowledge Sharing Communities
This paper explores the influence mechanism of social interaction in the knowledge sharing community on the disclosure of user privacy information from the aspects of user privacy disclosure willingness and disclosure level.Based on the stimulus-organism-response(S-O-R)theoretical framework,it investigates how external environmental stimuli in users'social interaction affect the internal state of privacy information disclosers,thereby affecting their privacy information disclosure intentions.Using a questionnaire survey,it collects data to validate the model proposed and hypotheses,and utilizes user behavior data from knowledge sharing community to explore the impact of social interaction among users on their level of information disclosure.The results show that social interaction significantly contributes to users'self-efficacy,trust between users,and social identity,which,in turn,affect users'willingness to disclose private information.Social interaction affects users'disclosure levels to a certain extent,and account authentication can play a certain positive moderating role.The results provide suggestions for promoting appropriate disclosure behavior in knowledge sharing community.
social interactionuser privacy information disclosureknowledge sharing communityaccount authenticationstimulus-organism-response(S-O-R)model