Safety Riding Behavior Tendency among College Students Related to Driving Attitude, Riding Knowledge, and Emotional Intelligence Level

The increasing of accidents involving motorcycles in the last 5 years in Indonesia has pushed the government to continue campaigning safety riding to the young generation. The Indonesian Statistics Bureau data showed that accidents involving motorcycles were dominated by young age. In line with government regulations, this paper discusses safety riding behavior among college students. A questionnaire distributed to college students and obtained 228 valid respondents with average age were 21 years old (71% male, 29% female). The questionnaire consists general information, driving attitude tendency (RA), safety driving (SR) behavior, riding knowledge (RK), and emotional intelligence (EI). This study showed that SR tendency of college students is moderate. A driving license(s) owned (DL) influence the riding knowledge (RA) with p-value=0.004. However, RA, SR, and EI are not different between age, gender and study years. Using a binary logistic regression, SR level predicted well by RA (p-value=0.000) with 93.3% accuracy. Based on this study, the participants with good RA, 1.185 times more likely will have good SR level.