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. 2022 Sep 13;22:240. doi: 10.1186/s12911-022-01986-4

Table 2.

Results of the moderation effect of message appeal on the relationship between the type of information provider on intentions to manage disclosure of personal information via motive perception (Study 2)

Direct effects on motive perception b SE p
Requester → Egoistic motives .43 .12  < .001
Message appeal → Egoistic motives .17 .13 .18
Requester × Message appeal → Egoistic motives  − .38 .16 .02
Requester → Altruistic motives  − .42 .14 .002
Message appeal → Altruistic motives .13 .10 .18
Requester × Message appeal → Altruistic motives  − .02 .18 .91
Direct effects on self-disclosure and falsification b SE p
Requester → Self-disclosure  − .07 .06 .28
Altruistic motives → Self-disclosure .61 .06  < .001
Egoistic motives → Self-disclosure .07 .06 .26
Message appeal → Self-disclosure  − .13 .06 .02
Altruistic motives × Message appeal → Self-disclosure .06 .08 .47
Egoistic motives × Message appeal → Self-disclosure  − .02 .08 .83
Requester → Falsification  − .20 .10 .05
Altruistic motives → Falsification  − .07 .09 .42
Egoistic motives → Falsification .43 .08  < .001
Message appeal → Falsification .01 .10 .95
Altruistic motives × Message appeal → Falsification .02 .13 .86
Egoistic motives × Message appeal → Falsification .03 .12 .79
Moderation effects of message appeal b CI 95% Effect size
Conditional indirect effect via altruistic motives on self-disclosure
Self-benefit  − .29 [− .475; − .133]  − .19
Others-benefit  − .26 [− .415; − .088]  − .17
Conditional indirect effect via egoistic motives on self-disclosure
Self-benefit .00 [− .006; .035] .00
Others-benefit .03 [− .020; .097] .02
Conditional indirect effect via altruistic motives on falsification
Self-benefit .02 [− .074; .106] .01
Others-benefit .03 [− .036; .127] .02
Conditional indirect effect via egoistic motives on falsification
Self-benefit .03 [− .073; .129] .02
Others-benefit .19 [.076; .331] .10

b, Unstandardized path coefficient; SE, Standard error; p, Significance; CI 95%, 95% Confidence interval. Self-disclosure, Intentions to self-disclose personal information; Falsification, Intentions to falsify personal information. Effect sizes are fully standardized.