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Title: | Testing the convergent- and predictive validity of a multi-dimensional belief-based scale for attitude towards personal safety on public bus/minibus for long-distance trips in Ghana: A SEM analysis | Authors: | SAM, Enoch BRIJS, Kris DANIELS, Stijn BRIJS, Tom WETS, Geert |
Issue Date: | 2020 | Publisher: | ELSEVIER SCI LTD | Source: | Transport Policy, 85 , p. 67 -79 | Abstract: | Keywords: Public bus passenger safety attitude scale Convergent validity Predictive validity Theory of planned behaviour Personal safety attitude Future bus use intentions A B S T R A C T We examined the predictive validity of the public bus passenger safety attitude scale (PBPSAS), a measure of personal safety attitude (PSA), to predict future intention to use public bus/minibus for long-distance trips. Using 510 adults, we tested among other things the hypothesis that PSA has a positive significant effect on future intentions to use public bus/minibus for long-distance trips. Data analyses involved: (1) descriptive analyses of measure reliabilities and the strength and evaluation of people's safety-related beliefs, (2) fitting measurement and structural models to determine the factorial structure of PSA and (3) path analysis to examine the relationships between two different measures for personal safety-related attitude (indirect (belief-based) measure for PSA and a direct measure) and future intentions to use public bus/minibus for long-distance trips. Data analyses were conducted using IBM SPSS Statistics 25 and AMOS 24. We found that: (1) a second-order factor model provides a more parsimonious framework for explaining PSA than a three-factor model, (2) the indirect measure for attitude towards personal safety has convergent validity, (3) PSA has a positive significant effect on both a direct measure for attitude towards personal safety on public bus/minibus, and future intention to use public bus/minibus for long-distance trips and (4) that the direct measure for attitude towards personal safety also has a positive significant effect on the future intention to use public bus/minibus. We thus conclude that PBPSAS is a useful instrument for measuring PSA and is valid in predicting future intentions to use public bus/ minibus for long-distance trips. | Keywords: | Public bus passenger safety attitude scale;Convergent validity;Predictive validity;Theory of planned behaviour;Personal safety attitude;Future bus use intentions | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/30253 | ISSN: | 0967-070X | e-ISSN: | 1879-310X | DOI: | 10.1016/j.tranpol.2019.11.001 | ISI #: | 000504503400007 | Rights: | 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2021 |
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