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| 2001 | Horswill, MS and Coster, ME (2001) User-controlled photographic animations, photograph-based questions, and questionnaires: Three Internet-based instruments for measuring drivers' risk-taking behavior. Behavior Research Methods Instruments & Computers, 33 1: 46-58. |
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The Internet has been exploited successfully in the past as a medium for behavioral research. This paper presents a series of studies designed to assess Internet-based measures of drivers' risk-taking behavior. First, we compared responses from an Internet sample with a traditional pencil-and-paper sample using established questionnaire measures of risk taking. No significant differences were found. Second, we assessed the validity of new Internet-based instruments, involving photographs and photographic animations, that measured speed, gap acceptance, and passing. Responses were found to reflect known demographic patterns of actual behavior to some degree. Also, a roadside survey of speeds was carried out at the locations depicted in the photographic measure of speeding and, with certain exceptions, differences between the two appeared to be constant. Third, a between-subject experimental manipulation involving the photographic animation measure of gap acceptance was used to demonstrate one application of these techniques.
| |  Associate Professor Mark Horswill | | eSpace Record: |
http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:114471
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| Keywords: | Psychology, Mathematical, Psychology, Experimental, World-wide-web, Sensation Seeking, Accident Involvement, Speed, Sex | | |
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