Active commuting among junior high school students in a Chinese medium-sized city: Application of the theory of planned behavior |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Architecture, Huaqiao University, 668 Jimei Avenue, Xiamen 361021, People’s Republic of China;2. School of Transportation Engineering, Tongji University, 4800 Cao’an Road, Shanghai 201804, People’s Republic of China;3. Traffic Police Brigade, 29 Chongde Road, Jinjiang, Fujian 362200, People’s Republic of China;1. Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA;2. Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore;1. Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Facultad de Ingeniería, Cerro de las Campanas S/N, 76010, Santiago de Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico;2. Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Facultad de Ingeniería, Río Moctezuma 249, 76800, San Juan del Río, Querétaro, Mexico;1. Department of Economics, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil;2. Department of Economics, University of Bologna, Italy;1. “La Inmaculada” Teacher Training Centre, University of Granada, Spain;2. Department of Physical Education and Sports, Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Granada, Spain;3. Faculty of Health Sciences, National University of Chimborazo, Ecuador;4. IRyS Research Group. School of Physical Education. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile |
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| Abstract: | In China, junior high school students are considered as adolescents, and their parents have guardianship of them. If junior high school students want to travel by motorized vehicles, they need to get assistance from their parents. The present study uses the theory of planned behavior to construct a model of dependent travel behavior that depicts the active commuting of junior high school students to school. A total of 449 junior high school students’ parents in Jinjiang city of Fujian Province in China were surveyed by using a questionnaire. Non-parametric test, reliability and validity test, factor analysis, and a logistic model were performed to test the model. The results show that the model is a good fit for the junior high school students’ active travel to school in the morning, and the Nagelkerke R2 of the model is 0.68. Behavioral intention and perceived behavioral control of parents affect students’ active commuting behavior, and behavioral intention is larger on behavior. Besides the inner attitude, the external environment such as non-motorized traffic facilities and the road traffic conditions along the way to school have significant effect on the behavior. In contrast to our expectations, parents leaving home for work in the morning, children’s gender, grade, and household income have no significant influence on the behavior. Measures should be taken by the local government to promote students’ active commuting to school, such as improving road traffic environment and providing safe routes. |
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| Keywords: | Dependent travel behavior Active commuting Theory of planned behavior Junior high school students |
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