“…Trust is considered an essential factor in the context of e-commerce and scommerce (Al-Adwan & Kokash, 2019;Slade et al, 2014). A number of s-commerce studies focus on trust as an important factor impacting consumer behavior (Abou-Elgheit, 2019;Al-Adwan & Kokash, 2019;Al-Dwairi, 2017;Bugshan & Attar, 2020;Chen & Shen, 2015;Cheng et al, 2019;Hajli, 2015;Hajli, Sims, et al, 2017a;Hajli, Wang, et al, 2017b;Leong et al, 2020;Lin et al, 2018Lin et al, , 2019Lu, Fan, & Zhou, 2016a;Lu, Zeng, & Fan, 2016b;Rahman et al, 2020;Sharma et al, 2019;Zhao et al, 2019). For instance, Abou-Elgheit (2019) applied a trust-based consumer decisionmaking model (TBCDM) and also included social and cultural dimensions (social approval, uncertainty avoidance, individualism, and benevolence-based trust) to investigate the behavior of Egyptian electronic shoppers.…”