Adaptation Study of Privacy Management in Social Networks Scale into Turkish

Author : Filiz Elmalı -- Yalın Kılıç Türel
Number of pages : 65-76

Abstract

The main goal of the study is to adapt a questionnarie entitled Privacy Management in Social Networks developed by Mohamed and Ahmad (2012) in order to measure undergraduate students’ privacy management levels in social networks. Originally, the questionarrie consisted of six factors with 21 items in total. The adaption process was conducted in two stages. In the first stage, data was collected from 190 undergraduate students to conduct exploratoty factor analysis. In the second stage, confirmatory factor analysis was conducted with the data obtained from 254 undergraduate students. As a result, in Turkish form, the questionnaire is consisted of three factors with 19 items: perceived severity and vulnerability, rewards, and self-efficacy and response efficacy. The findings show that the Turkish version of the questionnaire was reliable and valid to measure undergraduate students’ level of privacy management in social networks.

Keywords

privacy management, undergraduate students, social networks

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