Abstract When discussing bicycling for transport, comparisons are often made with the Dutch, with people in non-bicycling countries often saying, “but we are not the Netherlands”. Such comments imply there is something innately different and unique about the Netherlands and the Dutch that results in the proportion of people bicycling being far greater than in non-bicycling countries like New Zealand. This paper uses qualitative research to compare adolescents who have grown up in non-bicycling countries and subsequently moved to the Netherlands, with adolescents who have spent their lives in New Zealand (a non-bicycling country). Similarities and differences between the two groups are considered using the Ecological Model, the Theory of Planned Behaviour and the Prototype Willingness Model. Analysis shows key differences between the two places with respect to traffic safety for bicyclists, the appropriation of equipment to carry loads, the compatibility of uniforms and bike types with bicycling, and adolescent driving rates. Attitudes towards bicycling, injunctive norms related to parents, the gendering of bicycling, and cycling confidence also differed. We conclude that adolescents behaviour in relation to bicycling to school varies depending on the behaviour setting, the perceived environment and intrapersonal factors.

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青少年和骑自行车上学：行为设置/地点会有所不同吗？

摘要 谈起自行车出行，人们常常拿荷兰人做比较，非自行车国家的人常说“但我们不是荷兰”。这样的评论意味着荷兰和荷兰人有一些与生俱来的不同和独特之处，导致骑自行车的人比例远远高于新西兰等非骑自行车的国家。本文使用定性研究将在不骑自行车的国家长大并随后移居荷兰的青少年与在新西兰（不骑自行车的国家）度过的青少年进行比较。使用生态模型、计划行为理论和原型意愿模型来考虑两组之间的异同。分析显示了两个地方在骑自行车者的交通安全、承载负载的设备的分配、制服和自行车类型与骑自行车的兼容性以及青少年驾驶率方面的主要差异。对骑自行车的态度、与父母有关的禁令规范、骑自行车的性别和骑自行车的信心也不同。我们得出的结论是，青少年骑自行车上学的行为因行为环境、感知环境和内在因素而异。