Exploring the Relationship between Attitudes, Risk Perceptions, Fatalistic Beliefs, and Pedestrian Behaviors in China

Road safety has become a worldwide public health concern. Although many factors contribute to collisions, pedestrian behaviors can strongly influence road outcomes. This paper presents results of survey investigating the effects age, gender, attitudes towards safety, fatalistic beliefs and risk perceptions on self-reported in Chinese example. The study was carried out 543 participants (229 men 314 women) from 20 provinces across China. Pedestrian were assessed by four factors: errors, violations, aggressions, lapses. Younger people reported performing riskier compared older people. Gender not an influential factor. Of explored, explained most amount variance behaviors. Significant additional risky addition beliefs. differences among effects, implications for intervention design, are discussed. In particular, traffic managers provide education related training activities positively.