D: Bicycle use entails higher security and well being dangers specifically for adolescents. Most safety education applications aimed at adolescents concentrate on accident statistics and risk perceptions. This paper proposes the investigation with the socialcognitive correlates of risky cycling behaviors of adolescents before developing safety education applications. Process: Secondary school students aged to years (n filled out questionnaires concerning bicycle behavior,risky intentions,accident experience,and socialcognitive determinants as suggested by the theory of planned behavior. Outcomes: Regression evaluation revealed that the proximal variables (i.e selfefficacy,attitudes towards drunk driving,individual norm with regards to safekeeping of self and other people,and compared threat) were in a position to predict of your variance of risky behavior and of your variance of risky intentions. The full model explained respectively and of your variance in risky behavior and risky intentions. Adolescents with good attitudes towards risky behavior and low sense of responsibility report risky behavior,even when having been (close to) an accident. Conclusions: Adolescents understand whether or not they’re threat takers or not. This implies that the focus of education programs ought to not be on danger perceptions,but on decreasing constructive attitudes towards alcohol in targeted traffic and growing sense of responsibility instead. Cognitions regarding close to accidents really should be studied,the function of safe cycling selfefficacy is unclear.Background The present study was setup to investigate the socialcognitive correlates of risky cycling behaviors of adolescents. Bicycles are a popular suggests of transportation for adolescents in the Netherlands,at the same time as in other European nations. However,their use also entails high security and overall health risks as Butein observed in accident statistics. In ,more than adolescents (age were hospitalized and died in website traffic accidents . As a way to lower the danger several traffic education applications have been adopted. However,most applications lack a decent empirical basis. These programs are based on accident statistics only and not on social psychological determinants of teenage cycling behavior. An insight in the social psychological determinants of teenage cycling behavior is important when behavior transform could be the aim from the plan . Interventions to market safer Correspondence: hans.feenstramaastrichtuniversity.nl Function and Social Psychology,Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience,Maastricht University,Maastricht,the Netherlandscycling in adolescents need to begin with an assessment aiming to recognize specific behaviors contributing to the health and safety trouble at hand and their socialcognitive determinants. Following the formulation of program objectives,techniques for adjust are selected that target the identified socialcognitive determinants. These approaches are then translated in distinct techniques that match the intervention context and integrated into a comprehensive PubMed ID:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20339368 intervention program even though anticipating plan implementation and evaluation . The present study aimed to recognize relevant socialcognitive correlates of risky cycling behavior in adolescents to inform future intervention programs. Lots of explanations happen to be place forward explaining why adolescents show a lot more risky behaviors generally and especially in website traffic [for overviews,see ]. As an illustration,when kids reach adolescence,this coincides with an increase in independence. Simply because adolescents could explore boundaries,may perhaps fail to recogni.