Context

The prime cause of death among young adolescents - 12 to 15 years of age - are unintentional injuries, especially injuries in traffic crashes. In the Netherlands, they lose their lives as pedestrians, cyclists or as passengers of young drivers. The age-related rise in deliberate risk-taking is one of the contributing factors. To date, widely implemented strategies that solely target risky road behaviour are only marginally effective. To date, an unexplored but promising approach for effective strategies is to explicitly address risk-taking tendency, since this may not only result in risky decisions in traffic but also in health and social position. Further, these risky decisions may share the same underlying contributors, such as sensitivity to peer pressure. To date, these presumed relationships have not yet been tested.

Purpose

This study contributes to the developmental of prevention strategies, by testing that a) risky road behaviour cluster with other types of risk behaviours and (b) risk behaviours share the same underlying factors, such as developmental adolescent characteristics (CADs) and presence of risk behaviours in the perceived social environment (parents and peers).

Methods

Surveys were completed in class in several schools by 417 students, 46% male, all in the first two years of secondary school in the Netherlands.

Results

Correlations showed strong associations between risky road behaviour, smoking and/or drinking and anti-social behaviour, and weaker associations with a poor diet. These behaviours also shared predictor variables in regression modelling: peers acting risky and riding as passengers with dangerous drivers. Age and gender did not play a significant role.

Implications and contributions

The effectiveness and efficiency of road safety programmes for young adolescents may benefit from an integrated rather than a silo approach, by addressing clusters of risk behaviours and the influence of underlying factors related to adolescent development and their social environment.

中文翻译：

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危险的道路行为会聚在一起并与吸烟和饮酒以及反社会行为共享预测变量，以及青春期早期的反社会行为

语境

青少年（12至15岁）的主要死亡原因是意外伤害，尤其是交通事故中的伤害。在荷兰，他们以行人，骑自行车者或年轻司机的乘客的身份丧生。与年龄有关的故意冒险行为是造成这种情况的因素之一。迄今为止，仅针对危险道路行为而广泛实施的策略只是勉强有效。迄今为止，有效策略的一种尚未探索但有希望的方法是明确解决冒险趋势，因为这不仅可能导致交通风险决策，而且还会导致健康和社会地位。此外，这些风险决策可能会共享相同的潜在贡献者，例如对同伴压力的敏感性。迄今为止，这些假定的关系尚未经过测试。

目的

这项研究通过测试a）具有其他类型风险行为的危险道路行为群和（b）风险行为具有相同的潜在因素，例如发育中的青少年特征（CAD）和风险行为的存在，为预防策略的发展做出了贡献。在感知的社会环境中（父母和同伴）。

方法

在荷兰中学的头两年，有417名学生（其中46％是男性）在几所学校的课堂上完成了调查。

结果

相关性表明，危险的道路行为，吸烟和/或饮酒与反社会行为之间有很强的关联性，而饮食不佳的关联性较弱。这些行为在回归建模中还共享预测变量：同伴承担危险并与危险驾驶员搭便车。年龄和性别没有发挥重要作用。

含义和贡献

通过解决风险行为集群以及与青少年发展及其社会环境有关的基本因素的影响，针对青少年的道路安全计划的有效性和效率可能会受益于综合而非孤岛的方法。