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Determinants of Perceived Health and Safety Risks of Selected Hazardous Products and Activities
Author(s) -
OGLETHORPE JANET E.,
MONROE KENT B.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of consumer affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.582
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1745-6606
pISSN - 0022-0078
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-6606.1994.tb00855.x
Subject(s) - environmental health , hazardous waste , risk perception , health risk , product (mathematics) , regression analysis , perception , empirical research , business , actuarial science , econometrics , psychology , risk analysis (engineering) , medicine , economics , statistics , engineering , mathematics , neuroscience , geometry , waste management
Based on an empirical analysis, this paper presents models of the determinants of consumers' perceptions of health and safety risks of eight frequently used products. Using eight variables that have been postulated by researchers to be determinants of perceived risk, multiple linear regression models were developed for each product. These models indicate that different products have different determinants of perceived risk.