Exploring motivations behind pollution-mask use in a sample of young adults in urban China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Wearing a pollution mask is an effective, practical, and economic way to prevent the inhalation of dangerous particulate matter (PM). However, it is not uncommon to observe negligence in adopting such behaviour, and this especially among young segments of the population. Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) as conceptual framework, this study explores the role of socio-cognitive factors that affect the decision of wearing a pollution mask in the context of young educated people. This is done by selecting a sample of college students in urban China, a country that has seen air quality as one of the major challenges in the last decades. While young urban college students might be expected to be receptive to standard attempts to be influenced through reason-based cog

SUBMITTER: Hansstein FV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6280386 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature