Soc205 Social Research
Assessment Item Research proposal
Jingxi Li (11595357)
‘Young people and driving: attitudes and behaviours of safe drivers.’
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Introduction
In recent years, with the development of economy, there residents’ living standards in
China have improved significantly. In China, especially for urban residents, the trend of car ownership is rising. However, car accidents claim the lives of countless people, also cause huge economic losses. “The China's auto society development report, 2012-2013\fact that: In numerous traffic accidents, the driver of young people especially the proportion of people near the age of 21 has a tendency to rise. This kind of phenomenon should be attention of the society, it is not just about young people themselves, also to their families. In this proposal, I am going to investigate the attitude and behaviors of young in China who driving safely. From these positive young people’s, the idea not only can inspire to others, also can let the police know how to education and guide the drivers. I come from China, this country have the largest population in the world, young people is a huge social group. so this is a very valuable research project. From the Angle of driving people to explore their ideas and practices, it is very meaningful to explore this phenomenon. This research seeks to explore the difference between the safe young drivers and general young people, which Including driving attitude and driving behavior. For myself, I am also a driver, the survey results could bring me inspiration of driving safely.
Research question
What are the attitudes and behaviors of young drivers(18-24)in China who drive safely? Research Aims
The research aims to investigate the safely driving young drivers' understanding of
driving and their behavior. The aim is also to compare the behavior between drivers who driving safely and dangerously and which may be the more influential.
Literature review:
About ‘attitudes and behaviours of safe drivers’, this topic appears in the literature relating
to driver’s attitudes and traffic safety (Chen, 2011). According to attitudes and traffic safety (2011), As a vehicle driver, first of all, have a good psychological quality (p.3). On Professor Wu views, experience has shown that impatient type and type of cowardly young man, while driving, errors occur more frequently than mild personnel . This is because the temper irritable impulsive, self-control not to drive, is traffic safety hazards, cowardly type of person his weakness is not a matter of the decisive, reflect slowly(p.6). Wu also suggest that the driver should strive to learn the knowledge of safe driving car to adapt to the requirements of traffic safety. Driver not only to grasp the characteristics of the vehicle, but also to familiarize themselves with the vehicle
performance(p.6). Talking about safe driving (2012) notes that as a good driver, if you feel tired, take a break or stop the best parking look at the activities, wash your face, drinking tea water, fruit, etc., in short, to avoid fatigue driving.Bad driving habits (2011),which notes that young people are more likely to emotional instability, which led to the accident, for example , the mood is not smooth or lack of energy, drinking and driving(p.9). However, some objective factors,such as traffic laws in china(p.15) and road conditions(p.34), have not been clearly explained.
There appears to be not much research conducted about the attitudes and behaviours of safe drivers, little information about what young driver’s attitudes and behaviours. There has been some research about Knowledge of safe driving (WangKai, 2014, p 44),which shows that young
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Chinese contemporary understanding of the traffic is very scarce knowledge (p.214). Yang (2012), in his study, he compare the relationship between age and traffic risk cognitive ability. The study shows that young cognitive ability traffic risk is lower than the elderly, the attitude of the traffic risk is not as elderly care.
Methodology
The methodology of this study will be Phenomenology (Moustakis, 1994). The focus of this
methodology is on understanding the unique lived experience of individuals by exploring the meaning of a phenomenon (Manual Therapy, 2012 p. 378). Individuals, either through interviews or their cultural products - what they write, paint,etc. - are used to draw out the experiences of a particular phenomenon(O'Leary & O'Leary, 2010, P 138), which reflects the value of life experience.
In my survey, a detailed understanding of some of the safe driving people's behavior and attitudes of each individual young drivers will be collected. To some extent, my data is to explore the personal experience of young people, and in the Information analysis and summarize, the views of all individuals to obtain a universal young driver safe driving behaviors and attitudes.
Methods
An online survey will be used. Some young people who log in “weibo” will be invited to take part. Sampling
Participants will be sourced from a cohort of the student population at National Police University Of China (NPUC). NPUC is a police university.The sample for this research will be taken from a cohort of all the students who have driving license and study in NPUC, 2016, both undergraduate students and postgraduate students. Recruitment
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Some students who have a drivers license will be requested to participate in the study as a after-class activity. The sample includes undergraduate students (n=30) and postgraduate students(n=20). Gather them using the internet, with ‘weibo’, as the form of survey. This subject includes student from both different courses and different ages.The participates come from a diverse range of cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds and some national minority. Data collection
Data will be collected via an online survey, using “weibo”. As Manual Therapy 17 (2012) put forward, this method involves a group interview on a particular topic with around 6 to 10 individuals, and can be structured,
semistructured or unstructured. Depending on the research question, the chosen group may be homogenous or heterogeneous, that is, they may have similar or different experience, background or position. The Chinese students will be collecting data from the internet. An Online research is more facility, make students quickly and easily complete information and submit. Data Analysis
The data will be analysed using the thematic approach (Willis,2013 p.323). All of the data will be collected and analysed to connect the topic of the research question and to expend ideas. Ethical considerations
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The Charles Sturt University Human Research Ethics Committee has exempted this project from ethical clearance as it is a part of a class project and results will not be published (Bridges, 2016). In addition, this project still require some ethical considerations.To start with, the informed consent (Habibis, 2013, p77) is one of the ethical consideration.As the research via a form of online survey, In the beginning of the report, the students are requested to understand the content and intent of the survey, and then carry on.Next is anonymity(Habibis, 2013, p82), Throughout the survey process, the participants do not need to provide any information related to their own identity. Thirdly ,the issue of confidentiality(Habibis, 2013, p82) has to be considered. In this study, all of the data kept by myself, after the end of the study, the CSU and I Shared custody.There will be no negative impact for
non-participation,and the survey will be administered online without lecturer info.The last consideration is beneficence (Habibis, 2013, p78).The aim of my study is to educating the people in China who drive at risk, at the same time, the purpose of the study is to reduce the car accidents.What i am going to do will benefit the society.
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