The investigation of students' safety awareness and behaviors, and the development of diagnostic tests

Abstract

The present study examined safety awareness and behaviors among elementary, junior high and senior high school students by a quesitionnaire survery. By the exploratory factor analysis and multiple regression analysis, the factors of question items were extracted and the causal structure was explained among safety behavior and other factors. Furthermore, a structural model was confirmed by covariance structure analysis.
Secondly, based on five factors explained by the factor analysis of question items, the safety self check sheet about safety competence were developed by the procedyre of standardization