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. 2020 Jun 28;55:102188. doi: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102188

Table 1.

Common Cost and Benefit Antecedents of Online Self-Disclosure.

Antecedent Definition Findings
Privacy Risk The expectation of losses related to self-disclosure in SNSs (Cheung et al., 2015) Negative (Krasnova et al., 2010; Liu et al., 2016; Posey et al., 2010; Sun et al., 2015)
Non-significant (Cheung et al., 2015)
Perceived Anonymity The degree to which a communicator perceives the message source to be unknown and unspecified (Liu et al., 2016) Negative (Liu et al., 2016)
Non-significant (Lapidot-Lefler & Barak, 2015; Posey et al., 2010)
Convenience for Relationship Maintenance The ease of reciprocating information disclosures with others due to technical features of the platform (derived from Liu et al., 2016) Positive (Cheung et al., 2015; Heravi, Mubarak, & Choo, 2018; Min & Kim, 2015)
Non-significant (Liu et al., 2016)
Relationship Building The ability to build new connections to others via SNS (Liu et al., 2016) Positive (Cheung et al., 2015; Heravi et al., 2018; Krasnova et al., 2010; Liu et al., 2016)
Enjoyment The extent to which the activity is perceived to be pleasant and entertaining (Krasnova, Veltri, & Günther, 2012) Positive (Cheung et al., 2015; Krasnova et al., 2010, 2012; Liu et al., 2016)
Self-Presentation An attempt to control or guide the impression that others might make of a person by using verbal and nonverbal signals (Kramer & Haferkamp, 2011) Positive (Cheung et al., 2015; Crabtree & Pillow, 2018; Hooi & Cho, 2014; Liu et al., 2016; Wang, Duong, & Chen, 2016)
Non-significant (Krasnova et al., 2010)