The Roles of Age, Gender, Inhibitory Control, and Parental Supervision in Children's Pedestrian Safety

Abstract

Results are discussed in relation to children's development and injury prevention.

The Influence of Simulated Drowning Audits on Lifeguard Surveillance and Swimmer Risk-Taking at Public Swimming Pools

“…One might expect that more alert lifeguards would issue more warnings concerning safety than would less alert lifeguards. However, the null finding is consistent with our results that risky behaviors decreased and also with previous research in both laboratory (Schwebel & Bounds, 2003) and pedestrian (Barton & Schwebel, 2007) settings that suggests children may behave more safely when they are aware they are being monitored more carefully by adults. Thus, it may be that lifeguard warnings did not increase dramatically because swimmers began to behave more safely, in recognition that they were being watched more carefully.…”

A Review of Unintentional Injuries in Adolescents

“…Programs addressing the safety of employees can also be extended to focus on the safety of other family members such as adolescents on and off the job. Ecological approaches emphasize tailoring specific interventions to the cognitive and physical skills of adolescents and to the social world in which they live (9). Local enforcement of laws designed to protect adolescents is an important ecological factor in prevention.…”

Validation of virtual reality as a tool to understand and prevent child pedestrian injury

“…Three measures, adapted from previous research (Barton and Schwebel, 2007;Demetre et al, 1992;Lee et al, 1984), were computed to assess safety of the pedestrian crossings in all settings: (a) average gap size available (average temporal gap between the time the participant safely crossed the street and the arrival of the next Fig. 1.…”