Young pedestrians' behaviours and risk perception: a pilot study with Italian early adolescents |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Milan, Largo A. Gemelli 1, 20123 Milan, Italy;2. Azienda Sanitaria Provinciale Messina, Italy;1. Department of Cognitive Robotics, Faculty Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 2, 2628 CD Delft, the Netherlands;2. Group Renault, Chassis Systems Department, 1 Avenue du Golf, 78280 Guyancourt, France;3. Department of Computer and System Engineering/U2IS, ENSTA Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 828 Boulevard des Maréchaux, 91762 Palaiseau Cedex, France;1. Monash University Accident Research Centre, Monash University, Victoria, australia;2. Road Safety Victoria, Department of Transport, Victoria, Australia;3. Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, Victoria, Australia;4. Monash University Eastern Health Clinical School, Victoria, Australia;5. Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University, Victoria, Australia;6. Sunnybrook Hospital, Ontario, Canada;7. Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec, Québec, Canada;8. Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland;1. Robert Bosch GmbH, Gerlingen-Schillerhöhe, Germany;2. Assessment and Intervention, Faculty of Psychology, TU Dresden, Germany;1. TU Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands;2. SWOV Institute for Road Safety Research, The Hague, the Netherlands;3. TNO Traffic & Transport, The Hague, the Netherlands;4. Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | This study aimed to investigate early adolescents’ mobility, taking into consideration risky pedestrian behaviours around roads and their relationship with independent mobility and risk perception in different traffic situations. The participants were 922 students, males (48%) and females, aged 10–14 and who attended the seventh (51%) and ninth grades in a medium-sized city in southern Italy. They completed an anonymous self-report questionnaire at school, specifically designed for the research. Measures included mode of transport, level of independent mobility, frequency of risky behaviours as a pedestrian and risk perception of these behaviours. Moreover, students were asked to evaluate the risk, their likely behaviour, and likely motives for risky behaviour in a specific traffic scenario concerning a risky road crossing shown on a video. Gender and age differences were taken into consideration, and relationships between risky behaviour as a pedestrian, level of independent mobility and different measures of risk perception (concerning both risk behaviour as a pedestrian and in the video scenario) were investigated. Results showed that risky behaviours while travelling as a pedestrian were more widespread among ninth grade students and those who were more independent. Moreover, a strong relationship between a greater involvement in risky pedestrian behaviours and lower risk perception and a greater tendency to justify risky behaviours were found in the students. Results suggested the implementation of a prevention programme in early adolescence to improve both risk perception in specific traffic situations and the awareness of motives of risky road behaviours. |
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| Keywords: | Risk perception Risk behaviours Pedestrian risk Early adolescence Independent mobility Risk measures |
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