부산대학교 도서관

Evidence shows that contact tracing applications would be effective in stopping the coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19) only if enough people used them, which implies how important it is to motivate more people to use these applications in the future. Based on Agency Theory, we seek to examine the determinants of application use and compare the differences between these two countries. In addition, we aim to identify the moderating effects of privacy concerns and the mediating effects of implementation intention in terms of the use of COVID-19 contact tracing applications. Therefore, we conducted a survey-based cross-country field study, and we recruited samples of undergraduate and graduate students from South Korea and China separately. The current study contributes to the literature on both public health and information privacy, and more significantly, it suggests how we can motivate more people to use such applications to prevent the further spread of COVID-19.