Is This Information Too Personal ? The Relationship between General Information Privacy Concerns and Personality

  • Marc Busch (Speaker)
  • Christina Hochleitner (Author)
  • Tscheligi, M. (Author)

Activity: Talk or presentation / LecturePresentation at a scientific conference / workshop

Description

Privacy is an important aspect of interactive system design. To clarify whether there are individual differences in general information privacy concerns (GIPC) that relate to personality, we conduct a questionnaire study with 287 participants in which we assessed GIPC and the "big five" personality factors openness to experience, neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness and extraversion. Our results show that overall these five factors have low associations to GIPC in general and only openness to experience and neuroticism contribute significantly to GIPC. This is in contrast to previous studies, which show varying results. We conclude that the relationship between GIPC and personality factors should be re-examined with more reliable and valid instruments in the future. With this paper, we contribute with knowledge about the role of personality traits in influencing GIPC.
Period9 Jul 201411 Jul 2014
Event titleSOUPS - Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security
Event typeOther
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Research Field

  • Former Research Field - Technology Experience