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

Table 3.

Results of the moderation effect of message endorser on the relationship between the type of information provider on intentions to manage disclosure of personal information via motive perception (Study 3)

Direct effects on motive perception b SE p
Requester → Altruistic motive  − .27 .14  < .05
Endorser → Altruistic motive  − .04 .12 .77
Requester × Endorser → Altruistic motive .11 .18 .55
Requester → Egoistic motive .23 .12 .06
Endorser → Egoistic motive  − .05 .13 .71
Requester × Endorser → Egoistic motive .05 .17 .76
Direct effects on self-disclosure and falsification b SE p
Requester → Self-disclosure .03 .06 .68
Altruistic motive → Self-disclosure .69 .05  < .001
Egoistic motive → Self-disclosure  − .01 .06 .93
Endorser → Self-disclosure  − .06 .06 .35
Altruistic motive × Endorser → Self-disclosure  − .09 .07 .19
Egoistic motive × Endorser → Self-disclosure .04 .09 .63
Requester → Falsification  − .16 .10 .12
Altruistic motive → Falsification .16 .08 .05
Egoistic motive → Falsification .47 .08  < .001
Endorser → Falsification .14 .09 .12
Altruistic motive × Endorser → Falsification  − .11 .12 .38
Egoistic motive × Endorser → Falsification .20 .11 .07
Moderation effects of message endorser b CI 95% Effect size
Conditional indirect effect via altruistic motive on self-disclosure
Low credibility  − .10 [− .250; .043]  − .07
High credibility  − .18 [− .387; − .016]  − .12
Conditional indirect effect via egoistic motive on self-disclosure
Low credibility .01 [− .022; .066] .01
High credibility  − .00 [− .039; .025]  − .00
Conditional indirect effect via altruistic motive on falsification
Low credibility  − .01 [− .071; .013] .01
High credibility  − .04 [− .144; − .001] .02
Conditional indirect effect via egoistic motive on falsification
Low credibility .19 [.043; .362] .10
High credibility .11 [− .001; .244] .06

See Table 2 for abbreviations