Predicting the safety performance of volunteers: Does motivation for volunteering influence driving behavior?

Newnam, Sharon; Newton, Cameron; McGregor-Lowndes, Myles

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2008.12.004

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“…This paper addresses this gap by investigating the internal motivational factors that drive volunteers, particularly in the context of road safety initiatives. Notably, Newnam et al [5] highlighted that volunteers' driving behaviors during their service are signi cantly in uenced by internal motivations, where ego-driven motives correlate with higher self-reported speeds and altruistic motives are linked to safer driving practices. These ndings underscore the imperative of examining driving safety efforts, even within volunteer contexts.…”

Section: Enhancing Road Safety Through Volunteer Engagementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To address this, strengthening law enforcement through increased presence of tra c police, leveraging technology for better monitoring, and imposing stricter penalties for violations can effectively reduce road incidents. Furthermore, research highlights the importance of raising awareness, improving infrastructure, enforcing regulations, and educating the public on safe driving practices [4,5,6].…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Driving Forces of Road Safety Volunteers: Resilience, Coping Mechanisms, Well-being and Education

Shamoa-Nir

2024

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Road safety is a critical concern worldwide, impacting individuals, communities, and societies. As mobility rises, so does the risk of accidents and injuries on roads, emphasizing the need for preventive measures. Road safety volunteers are crucial in promoting and upholding road safety, making it vital to understand their motivations and Resilience Sources. This study aims to uncover what drives their commitment and the factors influencing their experiences as volunteers, informing strategies to support and enhance their efforts. Through analysis of 28 interviews with road safety volunteers, several prominent themes emerged. These include diverse motivations, a strong sense of purpose, active community engagement, and a sense of empowerment among volunteers. Additionally, the challenges they face in their roles highlight the considerable resilience these volunteers demonstrate. The importance of support systems—whether individual or peer-based, —in strengthening this resilience was prominently underscored. These findings contribute to the understanding of the importance of promoting education on safe driving practices and fostering active citizen involvement in preventing traffic violations and road accidents.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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The Driving Forces of Road Safety Volunteers: Resilience, Coping Mechanisms, Well-being and Education

Shamoa-Nir

2024

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“…In general, protective here means negating negative effects (Brayley et al, 2014). In addition, researchers have shown that it is one of the ways of addressing one's own personal problem too (Hoffman, 2017;Newnam et al, 2009). For example, people volunteer to escape from their own troubles.…”

Section: Protective Motivementioning

confidence: 99%

Brand Advocates and Crowdsourcing Practices on Social Media: A Conceptual Paper

Maniam¹

2022

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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The current demand for maintaining successful relationship marketing has prompted companies to use various tools with diverse techniques to achieve their communication objectives. Crowdsourcing can be considered as a promising concept which has revolutionized the process of obtaining, managing and maintaining consumers via the seamless connectivity of the online environment. Through this concept, companies can incorporate brand advocates into their communication programs as an effort to establish relationship with potential consumers. This seems to be congruent with the act of brand advocates increasingly using social media to share opinions and provide positive mentions about a brand. Their participation and engagement on social media can be examined through their willingness to recommend a brand without any incentives or rewards. In this research, the motivation for volunteering will be assessed along with the evaluation of brand relationship quality to demonstrate the intensity and strength of the relationship between the advocates and a brand. This paper presents a comprehensive framework of crowdsourcing practices on social media that describe the volunteering motives of brand advocates, which in turn leads to satisfactory and powerful relationship building. Data is proposed to be collected through a web-based survey and analyzed using the structural equation modelling technique. This study provides a practical framework to enhance brand relationship using technologically advanced crowdsourcing practices with digital communication as a platform.

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“…Alternative methods of enumerating work-related road traffic injury, including registration-based data 3 8 and self-reported data, 9 10 are also limited. In regards to the former, estimation through registration-based data is not feasible as only one state jurisdiction in Australia (NSW) has mandatory work-use vehicle registration.…”

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Work-related road traffic injury: a multilevel systems protocol

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BackgroundAlthough road traffic injury is reported as the leading cause of work-related death in Australia, it is not clear, due to limitations in previous methods used, just how large a burden it is. Many organisations are unaware of the extent of work-related road traffic injury and, importantly, what can be done to reduce the burden. The proposed research will (i) estimate the prevalence of work-related road traffic injury and (ii) identify the organisational determinants associated with work-related road traffic injury.Methods and designThe current study is designed to enumerate the problem and identify the individual driver-level, the supervisor-level and organisational-level factors associated with work-related road traffic injury. The multilevel systems protocol will involve a series of cross-sectional surveys administered to drivers of fleet vehicles (n=1200), supervisors of the drivers (n=1200) and senior managers (n=300) within the same organisation.DiscussionThe novel use of the multilevel systems protocol is critical to be able to accurately assess the specific determinants of driving safety within each context of an organisation.ResultsThe results are expected to highlight that reducing injury in the workplace requires more than just individual compliance with safety procedures. It will also establish, for the first time, an occupational translation taskforce to ensure that the research findings are adopted into work-place practice and thereby directly contribute to reductions in work-related road traffic injury.

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Predicting the safety performance of volunteers: Does motivation for volunteering influence driving behavior?

Cited by 11 publications

References 24 publications

The Driving Forces of Road Safety Volunteers: Resilience, Coping Mechanisms, Well-being and Education

The Driving Forces of Road Safety Volunteers: Resilience, Coping Mechanisms, Well-being and Education

Brand Advocates and Crowdsourcing Practices on Social Media: A Conceptual Paper

Work-related road traffic injury: a multilevel systems protocol

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