Investigating the Effect of Traffic Culture Education on Law-Abiding & Citizenship Behavior (Case Study: Middle School Students in District 12 of Tehran)

Ahmadi, Manijeh; Baeitabar, Kosar

doi:10.30473/ee.2023.63123.2487

Investigating the Effect of Traffic Culture Education on Law-Abiding & Citizenship Behavior (Case Study: Middle School Students in District 12 of Tehran)

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Manijeh Ahmadi ¹
Kosar Baeitabar ²

¹ Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

² M.A in Educational Technology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

10.30473/ee.2023.63123.2487

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of traffic culture education on the law-abiding and citizenship behavior of middle school students in District 12 of Tehran. The research method is quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test design and is applied in terms of purpose. In terms of data type, this research is quantitative, and in terms of time, it is a cross-sectional research. The statistical population was 4756 high school students in District 12 of Tehran in the academic year 2020-2021, which was selected by random cluster sampling of 40 seventh-grade students in two groups of 20 (experimental group and control group). The research tools of the educational package included pedestrians, vehicle occupants, urban cycling, public transportation, rights and duties of citizenship in traffic, and a researcher-made questionnaire that its content validity was determined by the Lavshe index (0.62) and formal validity by the opinion of elites and reliability was calculated by Cronbach's alpha test (0.80). Descriptive statistics (central and dispersion indices), inferential statistics (Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests, independent t-test, and paired t-test), and SPSS₁₆ software were used to analyze the data. The results showed that traffic education had a significant positive and direct effect on the law-abiding and citizenship behavior of students.

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Main Subjects

Environmental Education and Sustainable Development and Training program

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