Psychological predictors of mobile phone use while crossing the street among college students: An application of the theory of planned behavior.

CONCLUSION: The current study revealed that attitude, perceived behavior control, descriptive norm, mobile phone involvement and the perceived ability to compensate all emerged as significant predictors of intentions. The findings could support the design of more effective safety campaigns and interventions to reduce pedestrians' distracted crossing behavior. PMID: 27648513 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: research