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Resilience to online privacy violation: the role of socio-demographic attributes

The concept of resilience is multifaceted, and it attracts a great deal of research across diverse academic disciplines. In this paper we explore the concept of resilience in the context of privacy violation in online environment. In digital age privacy becomes an important issue and privacy violation online can significantly affect individual behavior. Thus, it is important to better understand resilience of individuals to online privacy violation. In this paper we present the empirical findings of privacy violation cases, perceived severity of incidence and resilience of Internet users to privacy violation. Furthermore, we explore how privacy violation online and resilience are connected to sociodemographic profile and attitudes of Internet users. Research is based on the descriptive analysis of survey data collected in Croatia on a sample of Internet users that have experienced privacy violation online in last three years. Internet users in Croatia consider unwanted commercials and recording locations, conversations, messages, searches as the main types of violation of their online privacy. In general, results indicate that Internet users recover quickly after the online privacy violation incident. However, results also indicate differences in the level of resilience among various socio-demographic groups, in particular in terms of age and education.

resilience ; privacy violation online ; Internet users’ profile ; Croatia

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