The attitude towards E-cigarettes, disengagement belief, E-cigarette health literacy and susceptibility among youths and adolescents

Abstract

Purpose: The marketing effort of e-cigarettes producers makes youths and adolescents less alert about the potential harm of e-cigarettes. The trend of e-cigarette use among vocational school students becomes increasingly severe in China. This study is to reveal the psychological process that plays a critical role in affecting students' e-cigarette susceptibility. Method: This study uses the time-lagged data collected from 835 vocational school students in China and the structural equation modelling.Findings: This study finds that the more inclusive attitude towards e-cigarettes makes vocational school students more easily undertake the cognitive process of disengagement belief, which in turn can boost the level of their e-cigarette susceptibility. In addition, such mediation process is shown to be weaker for those displaying the high-level e-cigarette health literacy. Implications: In the future, it is essential to help youths and adolescents built a correct understanding of e-cigarettes from multisource (e.g., schools and governments).

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“…Characteristics of the included studies are summarized in the Supplementary file. The 66 included articles included 23 articles from America 19,20,39,42,[43][44][45]52,53,[60][61][62][73][74][75][76]82,83,85,[93][94][95]98 , five from Iran 18,77,78,80,81 , five from Denmark 37,54,55,66,87 , four from Japan 58,84,86,88 , three from Turkey 48,96,97 , three from the Netherlands 56,63,89 , three from China [70][71][72] , three from Australia 38,59,64 , two from Taiwan 51,…”