title: Psychological Differences toward Pedestrian Red Light Crossing between University Students and Their Peers.
abstract: Based on our site investigation conducted in 2013, we found that the pedestrian red light crossing at the midblock connecting the campus of Southwest University and living area was low, where most of pedestrians are university students and staff. This paper reports a supplementary work applying the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) to identify any psychological differences toward pedestrian red light crossing between university students and their peers. Three social groups participated in the investigation. The first group is the university students in Grade one (Group 1), the other two groups are their previous senior middle school classmates who are now working full time (Group 2) or who are now out of work and school (Group 3). The statistical results indicated The TPB components accounted for 42.9%, 55.3% and 55.4% of the variance of red signal crossing intention for Group 1, Group 2 and Group 3 in the depicted road crossing scenario. The data also showed that there are obvious differences among the participants' responses to "refrain from crossing" between university students and others, and the subsequent regression analysis revealed the ability to "refrain from crossing" played the most important role in the intention of red light crossing in the depicted scenario.
authors.affiliation: School of Engineering and Technology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.
authors.forename: Qinghui
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Suo
authors.affiliation: School of Engineering and Technology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.
authors.forename: Daming
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000523:psychology*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002681:China; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D000069636:Pedestrians / Q000523:psychology*; D010379:Peer Group; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012449:Safety; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities; D016138:Walking
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