Official Publication of the National Center for Trauma Research Trauma Monthly 2251-7464 24 6 2019 11 01 Psychometric Evaluation of the Safe Road-crossing Behaviors Scale: A Study among Iranian University Students 18 23 104269 10.30491/tm.2019.104269 EN Mehdi Mirzaie Alavijeh Social Development & Health Promotion Research Center, Health Institute, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran Behrooz Hamzeh Research Center for Environmental Determinants of Health Research Institute for Health, Health Institute, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran Raziyeh Piroozeh Research Center for Environmental Determinants of Health Research Institute for Health, Health Institute, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran Farzad Jalilian Social Development & Health Promotion Research Center, Health Institute, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran Journal Article 2019 07 23 <strong>Background:</strong> Millions of pedestrians are seriously injured, disabled, or lose their lives in road traffic accidents annually. The availability of a standard scale specifically for predicting road-crossing behaviors would be beneficial in research applications and in tailoring interventions.<br /> <strong>Objectives:</strong> The purpose of the current research was to psychometrically evaluate the safe road-crossing behaviors scale based on the Prototype Willingness Model (PWM) among college students.<br /> <strong>Methods:</strong> In this cross-sectional study, a purposive and multi-stage sampling method was used to select 315 students from Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences (KUMS) during 2018. The studied social-cognitive determinants from the PWM included attitude, subjective norms, prototype, intention, and willingness. Participants completed a written self-report questionnaire. Data was analyzed using SPSS (ver. 20.0). Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) with VARIMAX rotation was applied to determine the number and composition of constructs.<br /> <strong>Results:</strong> Five factors were extracted. The calculated Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin (KMO) value was 0.806. Overall, the PWM constructs explained 64.39% of the variance in the hypothesized model. Cronbach’s alpha for the measured constructs of attitude, subjective norms, prototype, intention, and willingness were 0.87, 0.81, 0.68, 0.71, and 0.61, respectively.<br /> <strong>Conclusion:</strong> The present study provides some support from among students at an Iranian university for the internal validity and reliability of the safe road-crossing behaviors scale. This scale could be used in planning interventions for the promotion of safe road-crossing behaviors among pedestrians. https://www.traumamon.com/article_104269_0fbf3e45cb4acd1120de007929d25de3.pdf