I want to study the knowledge-action gap of drivers at pedestrian crossings by looking at why they do the things they do despite the knowledge they have on pedestrian crossing regulations. I aim at using Observations and Interviews to conduct this study. Now to my problem:
1. Do I interview drivers I observe violating the regulations on their knowledge on these regulations?
or
2. Do I observe violators' actions and interview a different group of drivers on their knowledge of the regulations?
I hope I made sense here. Please help
Dear Manuel Nii Martey Mensah
As you have mentioned that people do not adhere to the zebra crossing regulations although the majority of the people know what they should do.
Since you are aiming to study a latent variable - a variable that is not directly measured e.g. happiness- that is "knowledge-action gap" as you phrase it. Therefore, I would suggest you to develop a behaviour model to answer your question about why many people do not follow the road crossing rules.
In this model, you can use the driving experience, driving license, gender, level of education as a set of control variables that you can further analyze whether they have a significant influence towards people intention to follow the rules of a road crossing or not.
Many modelling techniques are available but the most widely used are the structural equation modelling (SEM) or the hierarchical regression analysis. Also, if you are new to these methods, sepically the (SEM), here is an answer to a question regarding how to learn SEM.
Kindly, find the link below
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_best_resource_available_to_understand_Structural_Equation_Modelling_in_an_easy_way
Belal Edries thank you very much. I hope this works. I will read more on your recommendation and revert. I'm grateful
you could do a questionnaire about that and send it via link , and let people answer these questions , if you cant get an interview , also you can make a visit to traffic police stations to get data , also get benefits from previous studies. good luck in that
Ahmed Suad Ali thank you very much. I will consider these also
you welcome Manuel Nii Martey Mensah , try to give a brief definition about the your aim and some vocabularies that normal people dont understand let say few lines so it will be much easier for them with my regards
Interviews with offending drivers are necessary. But considering the authenticity and validity of the results of the interview, at the same time it is more difficult to carry out the interview in this case. More we can perform various analyses by collecting data on the driving behavior of such drivers, as well as vehicle trajectory data.
Personal Interview is key to this type of research because with interview you will not only be able to record their responses, you will be able to observe drivers' body language on questions bothering on their actions and reactions to pedestrians. You may also need to review more literature to get some methods used by scholars in related studies. Hope this will help.
Yuzhi Chen thank you very much for this.
Olabisi Olapoju thank you. As suggested, I will observe their body language in the course of the interview too. That will aid me to know if the person is being honest (although it is not a lie detection test...haha).
I am grateful for your inputs
If you wish to obtain a big amount of data fast, you can develop an on-line questionnaire with the variables you are the most interested in for your study. If, as I believe, you aim at carrying out a more exhaustive analysis, I recommend performing personal interviews, or focus groups with the offenders.
Regards,
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