Vaping and dynamic risk construction: Toward a model of adolescent risk‐related schema development. Issue 3 (16th July 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tanner, Emily C.; Tanner, John F.; Vizcaino, Franklin Velasco; Yang, Zhiyong
• Is Part Of: Journal of consumer affairs. Volume 56:Issue 3(2022)
• Page Start: 1244
• Page End: 1259
• Publication Date: 2022-07-16
• Subjects: Consumer education -- Periodicals; Consumers -- Periodicals; 381.33
• DOI: 10.1111/joca.12470
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0022-0078

Abstract

Abstract: Adolescents experience vulnerability because their brains are not fully developed and they have limited knowledge and experience, inhibiting their ability to assess and mitigate risks. Drawing on literature from different disciplines, this paper develops a model that illustrates the dynamic nature of information and experience acquisition and ongoing risk and benefit assessment. New concepts are created to reflect better adolescent risk‐related schema: fungibility, fog of vulnerability, and points of tension, all of which are useful in understanding how intentions and in‐the‐moment decisions are made in the context of vaping.