Premium
The urban environment and child pedestrian and bicycle injuries: Interaction of ecological and personality characteristics
Author(s) -
Bagley Christopher
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of community and applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.042
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1099-1298
pISSN - 1052-9284
DOI - 10.1002/casp.2450020406
Subject(s) - pedestrian , vulnerability (computing) , personality , urban environment , psychology , human factors and ergonomics , poison control , suicide prevention , injury prevention , ecology , ecological psychology , geography , developmental psychology , social psychology , environmental health , environmental planning , medicine , computer security , archaeology , computer science , biology
It is argued that the study of injuries to child pedestrians and cyclists in urban contexts must involve the study of complex elements interacting within a total environment. This complexity, and the need for further research, is illustrated from a study of 400 child victims in an urban, ecological study, and of 67 individually studied child victims and controls. It is argued that the individual vulnerability of some children puts them at high risk when they live in certain types of urban neighbourhoods.