Accident prevention behavior of motorcyclists in Changwat Pattani

Marut Damcha-om, D. of Education, F. of Education, PSU.
Chidchanok Churngchow, Asst. Prof., D. of Educational Evaluation and Research, F. of Education, PSU.
Supawalai Phongsai, Health Promotion Official, Pattani Provincial Public Health Office, Pattani
Corresponding e-mail : dmarut@eduadm.edu.psu.ac.th

Grant : Graduate School, PSU
Published : Research Report
Key words : accident prevention, road accidents, traffic laws

This research was intended to investigate the accident prevention behavior of motorcyclists in Changwat Pattani and to compare the motorcyclistsÕ behavior by sex, age, educational attainment, experience with road accidents, and knowledge about traffic laws. The samples were 500 motorcyclists in Pattani who brought their registration book to Pattani Transportation Office to pay taxes. They were selected by the convenience sampling and were eager to cooperate in the data collection process. The research instruments were a test and a rating scale questionnaire constructed by the researchers. The data was analyzed by SPSS for Windows for percentages, arithmetic means, standard deviations, the t-test, F-test and Scheff method of multiple comparisons.
The findings were as follows :
1. The accident prevention behavior of the motorcyclists in Changwat Pattani was at the high level.
2. The accident prevention behavior of male and female motorcyclists was not different.
3. The motorcyclists who were 25-45 years old and those older than 45 showed significantly better behavior of accident prevention than those under 25 at .001.
4. The motorcyclists who had primary education/lower had better behavior than those with secondary education-diploma and those with a bachelorÕs degree/higher, at the level of significance of .05.
5. The motorcyclists inexperienced with road accidents were significantly better in their ac-cident prevention behavior than the experienced ones, at the .05 level.
6. The motorcyclists whose knowledge about traffic laws was in the low, moderate and high levels were not different in their accident prevention behavior.
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