Investigating the role of beliefs in influencing the hand-held and hands-free mobile phone use among pedestrians in India
| Autor: | Ankit Kumar Yadav, Sajid Shabir Choudhary, Nishant Mukund Pawar, Nagendra R. Velaga |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion. 30:79-90 |
| ISSN: | 1745-7319 1745-7300 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17457300.2022.2112235 |
| Popis: | Mobile phone distraction is a significant contributor to pedestrian injuries. However, mobile phone engagement among pedestrians has been scarcely explored in a developing country like India. The present study utilized the beliefs-based theory of planned behaviour to examine the association between pedestrian beliefs towards distracted walking (behavioural, normative, and control) and their mobile phone use frequencies. Based on a survey of 560 pedestrians (64.6% males), it was found that the major use of mobile phones was for listening to music (30.7%), followed by receiving a call (25%), making a call (18.9%), texting (9.8%), navigation (8.5%) and internet browsing (7.1%). A series of multivariate ANOVAs and logistic regression models were developed to investigate the relationships between the beliefs and frequencies of mobile phone use in hands-free and hand-held conditions. Significant multivariate differences were found for behavioural and normative beliefs in hands-free conditions and all three types of beliefs in hand-held conditions. The frequency of mobile phone use was significantly predicted by normative beliefs ( |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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