Exploring the Importance of Personality Traits, Sanctions, and Fear Appeals on Teen Driver Cell Phone Usage and Texting While Driving (TWD) Law Compliance
| 项目名称： | Exploring the Importance of Personality Traits, Sanctions, and Fear Appeals on Teen Driver Cell Phone Usage and Texting While Driving (TWD) Law Compliance |
| 摘要： | This study will investigate the role of the personality, fear appeals, and sanctions as factors which may be associated with the motivation to adopt safety behaviors and to comply with regulations regarding texting while driving (TWD). The objective is to determine how organizations can use knowledge about a teenage driver's disposition to design more effective methods to deter texting while driving (TWD) behaviors. According to the General Deterrence Theory (GDT,) "Individuals make a rational assessment of the relative benefits and costs of policy violations by evaluating the potential sanctions for violating policies (Bulgurcu et al., 2010; Siponen & Vance, 2010)." There are three key variables associated with this theory: sanction certainty, sanction severity, and sanction celerity. Of the three variables, the project will test sanction certainty and sanction severity. Furthermore, the GDT literature states that, "research has shown consistently that sanction fear predicts various criminal and deviant behaviors (Nagin and Pogarsky 2001, Tittle 1980)." Therefore, GDT predicts that "the greater the certainty and severity of sanctions for an illicit act, the more individuals are deterred from that act (Gibbs 1975)." Protection Motivation Theory (PMT), on the other hand, suggests that "individuals assess a threat and their ability to cope with that threat (Anderson & Agarwal, 2010; Johnston & Warkentin, 2010)." Threat Appraisal is composed of two factors - Threat Susceptibility and Threat Severity - while Coping Appraisal is composed of three factors - Response Efficacy, Self-Efficacy, and Response Cost. The "Big Five" Personality Traits included in the model are openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. |
| 状态： | Active |
| 资金： | 50000.00 |
| 资助组织： | Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology |
| 执行机构： | North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro |
| 开始时间： | 20140911 |
| 实际结束时间： | 20150915 |
| 主题领域： | Highways；Passenger Transportation；Safety and Human Factors |
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