Citation

Chen KY, Yeh CF. Safety (Basel) 2018; 4(2): e16.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, MDPI: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute)

DOI

10.3390/safety4020016

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The aim of this study is to explore whether risk perception or anticipated regret is responsible for intensifying the participants' intention to adopt a tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) to prevent a tire-related accident, and whether the optimism bias has a moderator effect between risk perception/anticipated regret and intention. With 274 valid questionnaires and PLS-SEM (partial least squares structural equation modeling) analysis, the results indicate a significant positive relationship between risk perception and intention to adopt TPMS, but not between anticipated regret and intention. The moderator effect of optimism bias on risk perception and anticipated regret is not found in the model. The findings will prove useful for public service advertising campaigns by providing a basis for an understanding of the role of cognitive and emotional factors in tire-blowout accident prevention, thereby increasing the motivation for drivers in Taiwan to take advantage of the protection afforded them by using TPMS.

Language: en

Keywords

anticipated regret; in-vehicle technology; optimism bias; risk perception; road safety; tire pressure monitoring system