title: Development and evaluation of a mass media Theory of Planned Behaviour intervention to reduce speeding.
abstract: The Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) has been widely applied to the explanation of health and social behaviours. However, despite its potential to inform behaviour change efforts, there have been surprisingly few attempts to use the TPB to design actual interventions. In 1998, the Scottish Road Safety Campaign implemented a 3-year mass media campaign to reduce speeding on Scotland's roads which was explicitly shaped by the TPB's three main predictors: Attitude, Subjective Norms and Perceived Behavioural Control. A 4-year longitudinal cohort study examined the impact of the campaign on communications outcomes and on TPB constructs. Overall, empirical support was found for the decision to use TPB as the theoretical underpinning of the advertising. The advertising was effective in triggering desired communications outcomes, and was associated with significant changes in attitudes and affective beliefs about speeding. In conclusion, future directions for road safety advertising and for TPB research are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Social Marketing at the University of Stirling and Open University, Department of Marketing, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK. marketing@stir.ac.uk
authors.forename: Martine
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stead
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tagg
authors.forename: Anne Marie
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: MacKintosh
authors.forename: Douglas
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Eadie
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000517:prevention & control; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000329:Advertising; D001334:Automobile Driving; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008402:Mass Media; D008875:Middle Aged; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D006113:United Kingdom