Beliefs, motives and situational factors
related to pedestrians’ self-reported
behavior at signal-controlled
crossings
學生：董瑩蟬
Purpose
• This study investigated that pedestrian’s
self-report road-crossing behavior, and
asked subject to writing questionnaire.
Reference
年份
學者
結果
1997
Assailly
1985
Van et al.
To investigate the pedestrians cross the street.
1996
Andrew
He analyzed the impact of variable on the
behavior before crossing intersection.
To investigate children and elderly group
on the crossing road.
1993- Ampofo et al. They examined pedestrians’ to judgments
1996 Andrew et al. relating to safe crossing.
Reference
年份 學者
結果
1973 Dannick
If the presence of a law-adhering pedestrian,
that will increases other people to adhere to a
‘don’t walk’ signal.
The physical factors affected road-crossing
behavior.
He examined children road-crossing behavior.
1991 Andrew
1972 Finalayson
1947 Henderson et al. They focus on the adults road-crossing
1990 Andrew
behavior.
Method
1.Subject
– 203 students(104M,99F),
– Age between 18 and 37(mean=24, S.D.=3)
2. Independent variables
– Gender
3.The questionnaire developed by Crowne and
Marlowe(1964).
Results
Results
• Beliefs and motives relating to unsafe road crossing
Results
• Beliefs and motives relating to unsafe road crossing
Results
• Beliefs and motives relating to unsafe road crossing
Results
• Table 2. On the t-test women(2.98) was higher than
man(2.60) (t(1.187)=2.83,P<0.05);More social life will be
affected by injury (M=3.78 and
M=3.62,t((1,200)=0.89,P<0.05);the crossing against
a ’don’t walk’ sign will annoy
drivers(t(1,200)=1.27,P<0.01).
• Table 3. men believe more than do women that walking
signals are designated for children and the elderly
(M=1.90 and M=1.34,t(1,198)=-4.12,p<0.01), and higher
evaluation to the chances of being approached by a
police (M=291 and M=2.53, t(1,199)=2.19,P<0.01).
• Table 4. the prediction of road crossing with the health
belief model and motives is significant
(F(9,172=13.47,P<0.01))
Results
• Situational factors
Results
• Situational factors
•On the traffic volume significantly predict road crossing
(F(5,193)=4.11,P<0.01).
Results
• Gender differences in road crossing behavior
•On the crossing with ‘don’t work’ signal,
the men (M=2.92) was significant higher than women(2.58)
(t(1,201)=2.46,P<.05)
Discussion
• This paper showed that gender have some
difference motives and belief with road
crossing behavior.
• The women has more careful in their
behavior as pedestrian. The same found
of Andrew(1991) and with young children
(Assailly,1997).
Discussion
• This paper founded that the gender
differences effect of situational factors.
• Harre et al.(1996) found that man engage
in unsafe driving behaviors, which similar
to the results Dejoy (1992).
• Moyano (1997) evaluate traffic violation
less seriously than do women.
Conclusions
• This paper showed that the gender has
difference on some items.
• The presence of other pedestrians and
their behavior was affected to Pedestrians’
road crossing behavior.