Social norms, attitude and risky riding behavioral factors as predictors of crash involvement among young adult motorcyclists in Indonesia: Testing a contextual model

Abstract

The contextual mediated model was used to examined the effect of distal context in predicting the riding outcomes via proximal context as mediated factors. The objectives of the present study were to (1) to identify the most appropriate factor structure of MRBQ items for riders in Indonesia; and (2) investigate the correlation between distal context (socio-demographic, attitude, and social norms) and the involvement of violation or crash/near-crash via proximal context which performed in MRBQ items towards. Young adult riders (N=420) in East of Jawa Province of Indonesia were enlisted in this research. In this current study, the MRBQ was developed to measure the proximal context of risky riding behavior. All in all, the study was able to extends findings related to contextual mediated model for young adult riders in Indonesia where distal context able to predict outcome via proximal context. Results were carried out considering the implication of the needs of refinement and development of MRBQ items before using the instrument widely particularly amongst young adult riders and also the practical implication for developing procedure of riding license were discussed.