Psychological and social predictors of motorcycle use by young adult males in New Zealand

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1357-1376

  Reeder, A I ^a   Chalmers, D J ^a   Marshall, S W ^b   Langley, J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Injury prevention; Longitudinal studies; Motorcycling; Problem behaviour theory

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MOTORCYCLE; NEW ZEALAND; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVENTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; READING; SOCIAL ASPECT; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COHORT STUDIES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOTORCYCLES; NEW ZEALAND; PUBLIC POLICY; RISK-TAKING; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0030747163     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(97)00061-0     Document Type: Article

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