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Supplementary file 1_The Price of digital sovereignty: how Data Self-Efficacy and perceived foreign data dependency drive citizen acceptance of costly cross-border data protection.docx Haowen Song (25162542) Meichao Zhao (25162545) Yuhan Gao (2563966) Haowei Wang (821958) Qi Cao (702669) Applied Psychology cross-border data flow Data Self-Efficacy digital sovereignty PLS-SEM policy acceptance costly policy support <p>Citizens increasingly endorse data protection policies whose costs are tangible and individual while their benefits are diffuse, collective, and geopolitical—a pattern poorly accommodated by privacy calculus models and largely overlooked in the international relations literature on data statecraft. Bridging these traditions, this study advances a microfoundational account in which Perceived Foreign Data Dependency operates as a cognitive bridge between macro-level geopolitical conditions and individual acceptance of costly data protection. Two parallel channels are specified—a risk pathway through Perceived Cross-border Data Risk and an opportunity pathway through Tolerance for Cross-Border Data Openness—with Data Self-Efficacy positioned as a moderator arbitrating substitute and complement accounts of citizen capability. Survey evidence from South Korean adults, analysed via partial least squares structural equation modelling, indicates that the two channels operate as complementary rather than competing mediators. Contrary to the discriminating-citizen prediction, higher digital capability does not partition legitimate openness benefits from illegitimate dependency risks; instead, it sharpens an integrative response in which registered dependency triggers a concurrent downward revision of the normative legitimacy of cross-border openness. This reversed-direction moderation is reconceptualised as the Enlightenment-Vigilance hypothesis, contributing a cognitive-bridge linkage between the geopolitics-of-data and privacy decision literatures and reframing the long-standing substitute-versus-complement debate over digital capability.</p> 2026-10-02T05:36:07Z Dataset Dataset 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1889373.s001 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Supplementary_file_1_The_Price_of_digital_sovereignty_how_Data_Self-Efficacy_and_perceived_foreign_data_dependency_drive_citizen_acceptance_of_costly_cross-border_data_protection_docx/34054530 CC BY 4.0