Understanding the use of motorcycles among secondary school students based on protection motivation theory
Despite the high risks as reflected from the annual road traffic casualties, motorcycles remain as a popular mode of transport in Malaysia due to its economic and ease-of-use factors. The age of the secondary school students in Malaysia ranges from 13 (Form 1) to 18 (Form 6), and thus technically the students who conform to the legal age to ride a motorcycle to school must be at least from Form 4, at the age of 16. From the authors thorough review, there’s no literature found that discussed license ownership among secondary school students in Malaysia’s context; however, it is common to see the youths under the legal age riding motorcycles on public roads. Therefore, the general objective of this study is to identify the behaviour towards motorcycle usage among secondary school students based on the Protection Motivation Theory (PMT). PMT is one of the few health-related theories that are commonly used to address fear and threat appeal to predict behaviour change. It is chosen in order to help in explaining the rational and irrational decision making processes among the target samples. This quantitative study has applied self-administered questionnaire for the data collection. From a total of 412 respondents, the results revealed that the students tend to agree that riding a motorcycle is riskier compared to other mode of transportations. Nevertheless, they are not willing to change to the safer mode of transport due to several factors such as peer influence, family-based decision-making and most importantly the convenience factors that motorcycle has to offer. More studies are needed in the future in both socio-economic and socio-technical perspectives with regard to commuting to school among school students.
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Corporate Authors:
Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research
Kuala Lumpur, -
Authors:
- Ali, A
- JAWI, Z M
- OSMAN, S
- Yei, L S
- Shariff, S
- Fin, L S
- VOON, W S
- Publication Date: 2016
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 32p
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- Issue Number: 210
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Adolescents; Decision making; Mode choice; Motorcyclists; Risk taking; Schools
- Uncontrolled Terms: Safe systems (road users)
- Geographic Terms: Malaysia
- ATRI Terms: Adolescent; Decision process; Modal choice; Motorcyclist; Risk taking; School
- Subject Areas: Education and Training;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01629006
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: ARRB
- Files: ATRI
- Created Date: Mar 16 2017 11:40AM