A socio-ecological approach to national differences in online privacy concern: The role of relational mobility and trust

Thomson, Robert; Yuki, Masaki; Ito, Naoya

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2015.04.068

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“…Based on previous dual-country studies, we tested a number of confirmatory hypotheses about the psychological and behavioral outcomes of relational mobility in the 39-society dataset. We theorize that generalized trust ( 10 , 24 ) and self-esteem ( 25 ) should be higher in relationally mobile societies, because they give people confidence to approach new desirable people in an open and competitive interpersonal marketplace ( 3 , 7 , 8 ). Hence, trust and self-esteem help people achieve the task of acquiring desirable relationships ( 16 ).…”

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Relational mobility predicts social behaviors in 39 countries and is tied to historical farming and threat

Thomson

Yuki

Talhelm

et al. 2018

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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SignificanceBiologists and social scientists have long tried to understand why some societies have more fluid and open interpersonal relationships—differences in relational mobility—and how those differences influence individual behaviors. We measure relational mobility in 39 societies and find that relationships are more stable and hard to form in east Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East, while they are more fluid in the West and Latin America. Results show that relationally mobile cultures tend to have higher interpersonal trust and intimacy. Exploring potential causes, we find greater environmental threats (like disease and warfare) and sedentary farming are associated with lower relational mobility. Our society-level index of relational mobility for 39 societies is a resource for future studies.

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Relational mobility predicts social behaviors in 39 countries and is tied to historical farming and threat

Thomson

Yuki

Talhelm

et al. 2018

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…Our participants who preferred Twitter seemed to be more individualistic--if we define individualism in terms of values for self-expression and choice (Inglehart & Welzel, 2005), and in terms of high relational mobility (the freedom to form and dissolve relationships) and greater trust in strangers (Thomson, Yuki, & Ito, 2015). Those who preferred Twitter were more likely to be young and engage in higher levels of self-expression in online public spaces.…”

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Why do college students prefer Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram? Site affordances, tensions between privacy and self-expression, and implications for social capital

Shane‐Simpson

Manago

Gaggi

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Computers in Human Behavior

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Highlights • Affordances, privacy concerns, gender, and age predict preferred social media site • Privacy concerns, trust, disclosure and site preference predict social capital • Facebook preference and being male predict bonding social capital • Facebook preference is associated with more privacy concerns and less self-disclosure • Instagram was the most trusted site, followed by Twitter, and then Facebook

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“…The socioecological approach provides views that cultural differences that are tailored to adapt for each individual in a particular social environment (e.g. Thomson, Yuki & Ito, ). One socioecological factor is relational mobility, which refers to the opportunities that people have in a given society or social context to select new relationship partners when needed (Yuki et al ., ).…”

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Influence of social context on the relationship between guilt and prosocial behaviour

Furukawa

Nakashima

Morinaga

2016

Asian J Soc Psychol

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While some previous researchers have found that guilt encourages prosocial behaviour towards a victim at the expense of other people, others have found the opposite, that is, people allocate resources at the expense of themselves. The present research used a hypothetical scenario method to determine which of these patterns would be replicated in the collectivistic context of Japanese society. In addition, we separated the cause of feelings of guilt into having caused harm and being at fault, and examined in more detail the effect of guilt on prosocial behaviour. Our results show that, in line with the second set of previous researchers, participants who were induced to feel guilt for having caused harm were more likely to allocate their resources to their victim at the expense of themselves than were individuals in the no-harm condition. This suggests that differences in social context influence the effect of guilt on prosocial behaviour in different ways.

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A socio-ecological approach to national differences in online privacy concern: The role of relational mobility and trust

Cited by 79 publications

References 37 publications

Relational mobility predicts social behaviors in 39 countries and is tied to historical farming and threat

Relational mobility predicts social behaviors in 39 countries and is tied to historical farming and threat

Why do college students prefer Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram? Site affordances, tensions between privacy and self-expression, and implications for social capital

Influence of social context on the relationship between guilt and prosocial behaviour

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