@article{ref1,
title="Mobile phone use while cycling among e-bikers in China: reasoned or social reactive?",
journal="Journal of safety research",
year="2023",
author="Wang, Huarong and Su, Fen and Schwebel, David C.",
volume="85",
number="",
pages="8-14",
abstract="INTRODUCTION: China has the largest number of e-bikers in the world, and e-bike crashes cause thousands of fatalities and tens of thousands of serious injuries annually. Mobile phone use while e-biking is a violation of Chinese law and associated with increased crash risk. The current study investigated mobile phone use behavior while cycling among Chinese e-bikers and the psychological factors surrounding why individuals might choose to engage in this risk-taking behavior. <br><br>METHOD: In particular, this study investigates whether the decision to use a mobile phone while cycling is explained through reasoned decision making or is a social reactive decision, or both, as defined by the prototype willingness model (PWM). Questionnaire data were collected from 784 Chinese adults with e-bike experience. <br><br>RESULTS: Results showed that 40.2 % of the participants reported mobile phone use while cycling e-bikes in the past month. Both behavioral intention and behavioral willingness were predictors of mobile phone while using e-bikes, and they were approximately equal in their magnitude of predictive power (β(BI) = 0.25; β(BW) = 0.26). E-bikers' attitudes, perceived behavioral control, and perception of prototype similarity and favorability were strong predictors of intention, willingness, and self-reported behavior to use mobile phones while e-biking. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Both social reactive decision-making and reasoned decision-making contribute to decisions to use a mobile phone while riding an e-bike. PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS: Results have implications for guiding development of interventions to prevent and reduce mobile phone use when e-bike cycling.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-4375",
doi="10.1016/j.jsr.2023.01.002",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsr.2023.01.002"
}