This study contains a preparatory report on material obtained from the Arboga project, "Future on the way", which aims at following up and evaluating road user education in lower and upper high schools in the municipality of Arboga. The purpose of the study is to analyse differences between boys and girls in their choice of leisure activities. These differences are compared with attitudes to a number of traffic-related topics. The attitudes gathered in have been processed by an analysis of the following three factors: the rule factor (regard for others, attitudes to rules), the motor vehicle factor (activity symbols, e.g. car, motorcycle) and the peer-related factory (behaving in the same way as one's friends). The results show that girls are considerably more positive than boys to rules and to showing regard for others in traffic. On the other hand, boys have a considerably more positive attitude to motor vehicles. Also, being like one's friends is regarded as considerably more important by boys than by girls. (A)
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