TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Psychometric evaluation of the Safe Road-crossing Behaviors Scale: a study among Iranian university students
JO  - Trauma monthly
A1  - Mirzaie Alavijeh, Mehdi
A1  - Hamzeh, Behrooz
A1  - Piroozeh, Raziyeh
A1  - Jalilian, Farzad
SP  - 18
EP  - 23
VL  - 24
IS  - 6
N2  - BACKGROUND: Millions of pedestrians are seriously injured, disabled, or lose their lives in road traffic accidents annually. The availability of a standard scale specifically for predicting road-crossing behaviors would be beneficial in research applications and in tailoring interventions. <br><br>OBJECTIVES: The purpose of the current research was to psychometrically evaluate the safe road-crossing behaviors scale based on the Prototype Willingness Model (PWM) among college students. <br><br>METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, a purposive and multi-stage sampling method was used to select 315 students from Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences (KUMS) during 2018. The studied social-cognitive determinants from the PWM included attitude, subjective norms, prototype, intention, and willingness. Participants completed a written self-report questionnaire. Data was analyzed using SPSS (ver. 20.0). Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) with VARIMAX rotation was applied to determine the number and composition of constructs. <br><br>RESULTS: Five factors were extracted. The calculated Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) value was 0.806. Overall, the PWM constructs explained 64.39% of the variance in the hypothesized model. Cronbach's alpha for the measured constructs of attitude, subjective norms, prototype, intention, and willingness were 0.87, 0.81, 0.68, 0.71, and 0.61, respectively. <br><br>CONCLUSION: The present study provides some support from among students at an Iranian university for the internal validity and reliability of the safe road-crossing behaviors scale. This scale could be used in planning interventions for the promotion of safe road-crossing behaviors among pedestrians.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2251-7464
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.30491/tm.2019.104269
ID  - ref1
ER  -