Open AccessVaping in a Time of Pandemics: Risk Perception and Motivations for Electronic Cigarette Use
Author(s) -
Xiaozhao Yousef Yang,
Brian C. Kelly,
Mark Pawson,
Michael Vuolo
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
nicotine and tobacco research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.338
H-Index - 113
eISSN - 1469-994X
pISSN - 1462-2203
DOI - 10.1093/ntr/ntac050
Subject(s) - pandemic , risk perception , perception , structural equation modeling , mediation , psychology , socialization , electronic cigarette , environmental health , covid-19 , social psychology , association (psychology) , medicine , political science , disease , statistics , mathematics , pathology , psychotherapist , neuroscience , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law
Prior studies on the association between the intensity of and motives for vaping e-cigarettes have highlighted the psychological dynamics of motivational changes, but less about how vaping motives may shift as a function of risk perceptions exacerbated by unanticipated events. This study frames the COVID-19 pandemic as an exacerbating threat to pulmonary health, and tests how e-cigarette users' risk perceptions of COVID-19 are related to different motives for vaping and ultimately the intensity of e-cigarette use.