TY - JOUR
PY - 2017//
TI - Relationship between religion and school students' road behavior in southern Iran
JO - Chinese journal of traumatology
A1 - Tabrizi, Reza
A1 - Akbari, Maryam
A1 - Lankarani, Kamran B.
A1 - Heydari, Seyed Taghi
A1 - Masoudi, Alireza
A1 - Shams, Amir Hossein
A1 - Akbarzadeh, Armin
A1 - Moalemi, Saba
A1 - Mehr, Maryam Mahmoodi
A1 - Sadati, Ahmad Kalateh
A1 - Peymani, Payam
SP - 264
EP - 269
VL - 20
IS - 5
N2 - PURPOSE: Unsafe behaviors are an important cause of accidents in adolescent age groups. This study was designed to examine the behaviors of adolescent pedestrians in southern Iran.
METHODS: This is a descriptive analytical cross-sectional study. The study population consisted of high school students in Shiraz, capital city of Fars Province, Iran. Five hundred and sixteen students were selected by multi-stage sampling. Data were collected by the use of three questionnaires, which included Persian copies of adolescent road user behavior questionnaire (ARBQ), Duke University Religious Index (DUREL), as well as the context and independent variables questionnaire.
RESULTS: The results showed that a decrease in dangerous behaviors on the road resulted in an increase in respondents' intrinsic religiosity. Also, engagement in unsafe crossing behavior in the road decreased with increasing respondents' intrinsic religiosity. Another finding showed that female students were less involved in dangerous play and planned protective behaviors on the road.
CONCLUSION: Findings clearly indicate that intrinsic religiosity has a significant role in reducing the risky road behaviors of students. Hence, religion may improve road safety in school students' road behavior in Iran.
Copyright © 2017 Daping Hospital and the Research Institute of Surgery of the Third Military Medical University. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Language: en
LA - en
SN - 1008-1275
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cjtee.2016.12.001
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