Взаимосвязь индивидуально-психологических характеристик личности и использования цифровых \"смарт\" устройств

This study aims to examine relations of individual factors such as self-organization, time anxiety, perceived privacy risk, perceived usefulness (benefit) and perceived personality influence to the use of digital self-tracking devices (DSTD). In order to understand which individual factors can make people be more willing to use the devices, that are collecting considerable amounts of sensitive information, this paper explores the subjected using mixed methods. The first qualitative part is based on content analysis of texts of books and YouTube videos, while the quantitative part consisting of regression analysis of statistical data. Results of the study confirm the hypotheses on positive relationships of DSTD with perceived benefit and perceived personality influence, while the hypothesis of connection od DSTD use with privacy risk did not find confirmation. Additionally, the results had shown that perceived privacy risk is negatively related to DSTD in case of high self-organization, while self-organization is positively related to the adoption of the devices in case of low time anxiety.