Facebook users are often affected by privacy violations, many of which could be avoided by making adequate use of and periodically reviewing their privacy settings. However, despite frequent reports of privacy-related news and events, many users fail to periodically review these settings. In doing so, they remain vulnerable to privacy violations and perpetuate the cycle of privacy victimization. Given that an individual's personality influences their behavior it is important to understand which personality traits are more likely to adopt privacy-protective behavior as a function of increased information security awareness. Using select constructs from the theory of planned behavior (TPB), we evaluate the mediating role played by information security awareness in certain users’ intentions to review their Facebook privacy settings. In particular how information security awareness mediates the relationships between each of the Big Five personality traits and their intention to review these settings. To perform the evaluation, we analyzed 594 survey responses using partial least squares path modeling (PLS-SEM). Our results indicate that information security awareness does act as a mediator, but only for some of the personality traits. In particular we found information security awareness to act as an indirect mediator between openness and intention to review privacy settings. This indicates that as users high in openness increase their awareness of privacy-related threats (via privacy news and events), so their intention to review privacy settings increases. We also found information security awareness to mediate the relationship between conscientiousness and intention to review privacy settings – albeit in a complementary manner. No mediating evidence was found for extraversion, neuroticism, and agreeableness.

Facebook用户通常会受到隐私侵犯的影响，可以通过充分利用并定期检查其隐私设置来避免许多侵犯隐私的行为。但是，尽管经常报告与隐私相关的新闻和事件，但许多用户仍无法定期查看这些设置。在这种情况下，他们仍然容易受到侵犯隐私的侵害，并使隐私受害的周期永久化。鉴于个人的人格会影响其行为，因此重要的是要了解哪些人格特质更可能采用隐私保护行为，以增强信息安全意识。使用计划行为理论（TPB）中的精选构造，我们评估了信息安全意识在某些用户查看其Facebook隐私设置的意图中所起的中介作用。特别是，信息安全意识如何调和五大个性特质与他们回顾这些设置的意图之间的关系。为了进行评估，我们使用偏最小二乘路径建模（PLS-SEM）分析了594个调查响应。我们的结果表明，信息安全意识确实可以充当中介者，但仅针对某些人格特质。特别是，我们发现信息安全意识可以充当开放性和审查隐私设置的意图之间的间接中介。这表明作为开放性高的用户提高了他们对与隐私相关的威胁的意识（通过隐私新闻和事件），因此他们对隐私设置进行审查的意图有所增强。我们还发现了信息安全意识，可以调解尽职调查与检查隐私设置的意图之间的关系，尽管这是一种互补的方式。没有找到关于外向性，神经质和顺从性的中介证据。