Child pedestrian safety: Parental supervision, modeling behaviors, and beliefs about child pedestrian competence

Morrongiello, Barbara A.; Barton, Benjamin K.

doi:10.1016/j.aap.2009.06.017

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“…Las alternativas de respuesta van desde nunca (1) a siempre (6). De la escala fueron eliminados dos ítems cuyas cargas factoriales fueron bajas (menores a 0,4).…”

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Prácticas parentales y conductas de riesgo del peatón en una muestra de adolescentes chilenos

Herrera

Repetto

2014

Rev. méd. Chile

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“…Las alternativas de respuesta van desde nunca (1) a siempre (6). De la escala fueron eliminados dos ítems cuyas cargas factoriales fueron bajas (menores a 0,4).…”

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“…Esto se debe que son los padres quienes les enseñan a sus hijos conductas seguras en las calles durante esta etapa del desarrollo [6][7][8][9] . Estos estudios muestran que los padres juegan un rol importante en éstas al comunicar las expectativas que tienen respecto a las conductas de seguridad en las calles 10 .…”

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Prácticas parentales y conductas de riesgo del peatón en una muestra de adolescentes chilenos

Herrera

Repetto

2014

Rev. méd. Chile

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“…British studies have found that adults were more likely to hold a girl's hand when crossing the road and that parents controlled girls more than boys (Dunbar et al 2002;Zeedyk and Kelly 2003). In Canada, parents were more likely to model safe crossing behavior for boys than girls (Morrongiello and Barton 2009). Our first research objective was to add to the sparse research literature on adult pedestrian behaviors when accompanying boys and girls.…”

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“…However, relatively few studies have investigated the pedestrian behavior of adults when accompanying children (Morrengiello and Barton 2009). Adults have been found to model safe road crossing behavior to children but not use the road crossing activity as an opportunity to explicitly teach children about road safety (Morrongiello and Barton 2009;Zeedyk and Kelly 2003). Also, adults may behave differently when accompanying boys and girls depending on social and cultural context.…”

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Adult Pedestrian Behavior When Accompanying Children on the Route to School

Pfeffer

Fagbemi

Stennet

2010

Traffic Injury Prevention

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Objective: Pedestrian injuries are a major cause of morbidity and mortality to children, especially boys. Adults serve as pedestrian role models and provide learning opportunities to children when walking to school. The research objectives were to investigate adult pedestrian behaviour when accompanying boys and girls.Methods: Behavioural observation of 140 adult pedestrians accompanying 4 -9 year-old children was done in British residential locations. Observations took place at light-controlled crossings, speed restricted school safety zones and mid-block unmarked crossing sites.Behaviours observed included stopping at the curb, waiting at the curb, looking left and right before and during road crossing, holding hands, talking, and walking straight across. Results:In general, adults modeled safe road crossing behaviours. Adult safe behaviour scores were higher when accompanying girls than when accompanying boys. No statistically significant differences were found by child age group. The fewest safe pedestrian behaviors were observed at light-controlled crossings. Conclusions:Adult pedestrians behave differently when with boys and girls and at different types of road crossing site. Interventions aimed at reducing pedestrian injuries to children may need to take these different everyday experiences into consideration.

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“…This has been the major focus of a number of pedestrian studies. For example, studies dealing with pedestrian safety, in both signalised and un-signalised intersections, have been carried out by Muraleetharan et al [21], King et al [3] and Guo et al [22]; pedestrian risk-taking behaviour [4,23,24], such as drunk pedestrians [25], distracted walking [26], illegal pedestrian crossing behaviour [3,26], across different age groups, such as child pedestrians [27] and college students [26]; modelling pedestrian behaviour [28]; and pedestrian safety factors [5]. However, traffic signals are effective only when traffic rules are enforced as intended.…”

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Pedestrian Crossing Environments in an Emerging Chinese City: Vehicle Encountering, Seamless Walking, and Sensory Perception Perspectives

Kim¹,

Mateo-Babiano²

2018

Sustainability

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Abstract:While pedestrian crossings play a vital role in providing seamless mobility for pedestrians, they have also continually been spaces of negotiation, contestation, and conflicts between and among different users. Several evidences have shown that such conflict has always been costly, risky, and even fatal to pedestrians. This research aims to assess the pedestrian crossing from an operational perspective in one emerging Chinese city, Suzhou. To evaluate, this research has developed three indices associated with vehicle encountering (VE index), crossing time (CT index) and H-index which refers to audio-sensory perception or a count on the number of horns. This research used video and audio recordings on sample pedestrian crossings. Pedestrians encountered 1.16 vehicles on average when crossing at the sample roads. The average CT index was 1.19 signifying that pedestrians waited for 19% more than their seamless walking when there was no pedestrian crossing. The H index was 5.8 on average at peak time, meaning that there were 5.8 horns (Hs) from vehicles every one minute or approximately one H per every 10 s at a pedestrian crossing. The analysis of these three indices was strengthened by multilevel regression and multi-variable regression analyses. The paper concludes with insights on how the level of safety of inferior walking environments associated with ambiguous traffic rules, vehicle-prioritised traffic behaviours and passive roles of traffic police officers can be improved.

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Child pedestrian safety: Parental supervision, modeling behaviors, and beliefs about child pedestrian competence

Cited by 56 publications

References 31 publications

Prácticas parentales y conductas de riesgo del peatón en una muestra de adolescentes chilenos

Prácticas parentales y conductas de riesgo del peatón en una muestra de adolescentes chilenos

Adult Pedestrian Behavior When Accompanying Children on the Route to School

Pedestrian Crossing Environments in an Emerging Chinese City: Vehicle Encountering, Seamless Walking, and Sensory Perception Perspectives

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