Survey on motivation to protect online social networks, 2018

The aim of the research is to examine the factors related to the motivation to protect users on online social networks. The aim of the study was to find out how psychologically ownership, privacy concerns, information sensitivity, descriptive norm, perceived regulation, control concerns, perceived vulnerability, perceived consequences and perceived threats affect motivation for the protection and safe behaviour of users on online social networks. The research followed an intersectional research strategy. The survey was conducted among members of 15 Slovenian groups. speaking users of the social network Facebook, between June and November 2018. The survey was completed by 308 respondents, but the analysis was carried out on only 274 units, which in constructs: privacy concerns, information sensitivity, protection motivation, descriptive norm, perceived regulation, control concerns, perceived vulnerability, perceived consequences and perceived threats of responses he gave at least one answer. The questionnaire was originally developed in English. A Slovenian translation of the survey questionnaire is available. The data file is available in Slovenian and English.