Recreational making–related beliefs in adolescents: developing a comprehensive belief category system

Making activities, such as creating individual artifacts via 3D printing, offer great potential for adolescents to acquire skills beneficial for their digital empowerment. To develop interventions that may increase adolescents’ making engagement, their making-related beliefs need to be explored and systematized. Therefore, based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB; Ajzen, 1991), this interview study elicited beliefs regarding recreational making with N = 29 adolescents. The sample included bo