Blair Earl H, Seo Dong-Chul, Torabi Mohammad R, Kaldahl Mark A
Department of Applied Health Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
J Safety Res. 2004;35(2):131-40. doi: 10.1016/j.jsr.2003.11.003.
This study investigated the impact of safety beliefs on safe behavior and the effect of age, gender, class standing, and geographic region on these beliefs and behaviors. It also compares the level of safety beliefs and safe behavior of Midwestern college students in 1993 to those in 2002.
A total of 1,059 undergraduate students at four Midwestern universities completed the 33-item questionnaire developed by Crowe (J. Saf. Res. 26 (1995) 187) during the spring semester of 2002.
Significant main effects for gender and age on safety beliefs and safe behavior were found as well as a significant interaction between gender and age for both outcome variables. The regression model with the independent variables of personal responsibility and gender yielded a multiple R of.58, which explained 34% of the variance of the self-reported safe behavior. Midwestern college students in 2002 were found less safety-conscious in terms of self-reported safety beliefs and safe behavior than those in 1993.
The findings indicate that safety education of adolescents and young adults in the United States has not been effective, at least for the last decade, or today's social and school environment is less conducive to the students' safe behavior and beliefs than a decade ago.
Proactive multidisciplinary approaches to enhance safe behavior and beliefs of young adults should be made based on critical evaluation of current approaches.
本研究调查了安全信念对安全行为的影响，以及年龄、性别、年级和地理区域对这些信念和行为的影响。它还比较了1993年和2002年中西部大学生的安全信念水平和安全行为。
2002年春季学期，中西部四所大学的1059名本科生完成了由克罗（《安全研究杂志》26（1995）187）编制的33项问卷。
发现性别和年龄对安全信念和安全行为有显著的主效应，并且两个结果变量在性别和年龄之间存在显著的交互作用。以个人责任和性别为自变量的回归模型得出复相关系数为0.58，这解释了自我报告的安全行为方差的34%。研究发现，2002年的中西部大学生在自我报告的安全信念和安全行为方面比1993年的学生安全意识更低。
研究结果表明，至少在过去十年中，美国青少年和青年的安全教育没有成效，或者说如今的社会和学校环境比十年前更不利于学生的安全行为和信念。
应在对当前方法进行批判性评估的基础上，采取积极主动的多学科方法来增强年轻人的安全行为和信念。
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