Pedestrian behaviour of 6th grade Estonian students: Implications of social factors and accident-prevention education at school |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Transportation, Southeast University, No. 2 Sipailou, Nanjing 210096, China;2. Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Thompson Hall, 200 Hicks Way, MA 01003, USA;1. The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI), Linköping, Sweden;2. Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden;3. Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden;1. University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, Ann Arbor, MI, United States;2. Center for Advancing Transportation Leadership and Safety (ATLAS Center), Ann Arbor, MI, United States;3. Miami University, Sociology and Gerontology, Oxford, OH, United States;4. Monash University Accident Research Centre, Clayton, Australia;5. Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States;6. Institute of Gerontology, Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States;7. Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States;8. Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, United States;9. Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia''s Injury Control Research Center, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States;10. Bassett Research Institute, Bassett Healthcare Network, Cooperstown, NY, United States;1. French Armed Forces Biomedical Research Institute (IRBA), 91223 Brétigny-sur-Orge Cedex, France;2. Monash University Accident Research Centre, Monash University, 21 Alliance Way, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia;3. Department of Psychology, Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus, Güzelyurt/Morphou, Northern Cyprus |
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| Abstract: | Children as pedestrians are one of the most vulnerable groups of road users. Therefore factors associated with risky pedestrian behaviour should be carefully studied. The aim of this article is to clarify how the traffic behaviour of 6th grade students as pedestrians is associated with the behaviour of their traffic companions and prevention activities at school, also taking gender into consideration. The research was conducted based on a randomly-selected sample of 1033 6th-grade students with the mean age of 12.77 ± 0.38 (SD) years. The results showed that compared to girls boys take significantly more risks as pedestrians: they rarely use reflectors during periods of darkness and often cross the road against the red light. The most important role models for adolescents in traffic behaviour are their parents. The role model behaviour with the strongest effect on adolescent high-risk behaviour in traffic is the role model not using crosswalks to cross the street. The results also showed that higher-risk traffic behaviour by adolescent pedestrians is predicted by higher-risk behaviour on the part of their companions (parents, teachers), walking alone on the street, as well as by an adolescent’s lower involvement in the less active prevention activities in the classroom. To improve adolescent pedestrians’ traffic behaviour social environment and school-based factors should be considered more thoroughly in prevention work at school. |
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| Keywords: | Traffic risk behaviour Pedestrians Schoolchildren Social environment Prevention School |
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