Author, as appears in the article.: Garcia-Ros, R; Molina, JG; Ferrando, PJ;

Department: Psicologia

URV's Author/s: Ferrando Piera, Pere Joan

Keywords: Accidents

Abstract: The perception of risk by people in traffic scenes is claimed as a relevant predictive variable of the way these scenes evolve and, therefore, an important content to be raised in Road Users Education? a subject in the Spanish school curriculum. In order to promote the availability of educational resources related to this subject, the aim of this work was focused in the development of a sca le oriented to measure the risk perception of traffic scents by school boys and girls (ages 6 to 14). The development of this scale was mainly guided by content validity and school usefulness issues. item analysis based on judge opinions and empirical data coming from a sample of 667 Spanish children supported the psychometric development of the scale.

Thematic Areas: Serviço social Psychology, multidisciplinary Psychology (miscellaneous) Psychology (all) Psychology Psicología Interdisciplinar General psychology Educação Ciencias sociales

licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

ISSN: 0214-9915

Author's mail: perejoan.ferrando@urv.cat

Author identifier: 0000-0002-3133-5466

Record's date: 2023-02-19

Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Link to the original source: http://www.psicothema.com/psicothema.asp?id=441

Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Papper original source: Psicothema. 13 (2): 234-239

APA: Garcia-Ros, R; Molina, JG; Ferrando, PJ; (2001). Testing risk perception in road users education: Development of a scale oriented to Spanish compulsory education.. Psicothema, 13(2), 234-239

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Journal publication year: 2001

Publication Type: Journal Publications