Journal article
Mobile phone use while cycling among e-bikers in China: Reasoned or social reactive?
Journal of safety research, Vol.85, pp.8-14
06/2023
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsr.2023.01.002
PMID: 37330903
Abstract
•We examined mobile phone use behavior among Chinese e-bikers and the psychological predictors.•40.2% of the participants reported mobile phone use while cycling e-bikes in the past month.•Both social reactive pathway and reasoned pathway contribute to decisions to use a mobile phone while riding an e-bike.•Perceived behavioral control (PBC) is the strongest predictor of mobile phone use while riding e-bikes.
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. 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. 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 (βBI = 0.25; βBW = 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. 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.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Mobile phone use while cycling among e-bikers in China: Reasoned or social reactive?
- Creators
- Huarong Wang - Nantong UniversityFen Su - Nantong UniversityDavid C. Schwebel - University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of safety research, Vol.85, pp.8-14
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jsr.2023.01.002
- PMID
- 37330903
- NLM abbreviation
- J Safety Res
- ISSN
- 0022-4375
- eISSN
- 1879-1247
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Number of pages
- 7
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/2023
- Academic Unit
- Research Administration
- Record Identifier
- 9984949186702771
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