@article{ref1,
title="Risk-mitigating beliefs, risk estimates, and self-reported speeding in a sample of Australian drivers",
journal="Journal of safety research",
year="2003",
author="Cotton, Adrian and Brown, S. L.",
volume="34",
number="2",
pages="183-188",
abstract="PROBLEM: Research suggests that people who engage in risk-taking behaviors often hold specific beliefs that can mitigate or reduce their perceptions of risk associated with those behaviors. METHOD: A scale was developed (Speeding Risk Belief Scale (SRBS)) to assess beliefs about speeding-related risk and predict self-reported speeding in a random-digit telephone survey of 800 South Australian drivers between the ages of 16 and 50. RESULTS: The scale was internally consistent, and path analyses showed it to be associated with self-reported speeding, both directly and indirectly through participants' estimates of speeding-related risk. DISCUSSION: Origins of risk-mitigating beliefs and the extent to which they may be causally linked with speeding are discussed, and recommendations are made for future research. IMPACT ON INDUSTRY: This research has strong implications for the conduct of countermeasure campaigns that disseminate information on speeding-related risk.",
language="en",
issn="0022-4375",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}