Predicting reported seat belt use from attitudinal and normative factors
✍ Scribed by Brian A. Jonah; Nancy E. Dawson
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 633 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0001-4575
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✦ Synopsis
A study was conducted to determrne whether both attitudmal and normative factors would make unique contributions to the prediction of self-reported seat belt use in an area where seat beit use is compulsory. Two samples of drivers were interviewed concerning their attitudes toward seat belt use and the seat belt legislation, social intluence of others, reported belt usage and demo~aphic isolation.
The results for the first sample (N = 445) indicated that attitude toward the seat beh legislation, attitude toward seat belts, social pressure and perceived belt use in the community jointly predicted reported belt use (R 10.69). The correlation between predicted belt use and reported belt use (r=O..57) in the crossvalidation sample (N = 438) was close to the multiple correlation obtained for the first sample. The implications of these results for promoting seat belt use are discussed.