MEANS OF TRANSPORT AND ONTOLOGICAL SECURITY: DO CARS PROVIDE PSYCHO-SOCIAL BENEFITS TO THEIR USERS?

By R. Hiscock, S. Macintyre, A. Kearns, A. Ellaway. 2002

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Transportation

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How satisfying is the Scale for Travel Satisfaction (2015, background): “For instance, active travel and especially car use protect travellers against undesired contact with other (unknown) travellers, which is much less the case for public transport users (Bissell, 2010; Hiscock et al., 2002).”
Mood and mode: does how we travel affect how we feel? (2014, background): “In another investigation of affect and mode, Hiscock et al. (2002) find that in the aggregate auto owners have greater psycho-social satisfaction from travel than those who are dependent on public transportation, thanks to feelings of protection, autonomy, prestige, shelter from the elements,…”
Towards a theory of decoupling: degrees of decoupling in the EU and the case of road traffic in Finland between 1970 and 2001 (2005, methodology): “As has been shown by empirical research, for a significant segment of consumers the private car seems to hold status values which cannot be reduced to the rational need to move from point A to point B (Jensen, 1999; Mokhtarian and Salomon, 2001; Steg et al., 2001; Hiscock et al., 2002).”
Investigating the subjective and objective factors influencing teenagers’ school travel mode choice – An integrated choice and latent variable model (2015, background): “…their peers from higher-income households (and so may be more worried about road safety; Green et al., 2004), the transport mode alternatives available to low income children are limited (see Green et al., 2004) and the parents of such children may also be less protective (Hiscock et al., 2002).”
Still Feeling the Car – The Role of Comfort in Sustaining Private Car Use (2015, methodology): “Feeling comfortable – the relaxed and secluded body The way the car is associated with comfort and the maintenance of personal space often surfaces in literature on its appeal (for e.g. Hiscock et al. 2002; Ibrahim 2003; Petkewich 2005; Basmajian 2010).”
The relationship between instrumental, symbolic and affective factors as predictors of car use: A structural equation modeling approach (2009, background): “Nevertheless, by means of qualitative techniques, evidence has been obtained of the importance of these affective and symbolic motives in people’s minds when they think about buying a car (Hiscock et al., 2002; Lupton, 2002; Mann and Abraham, 2006; Steg et al., 2001).”
The political economy of car dependence: A systems of provision approach (2020, background): “Many car users are reluctant to switch to alternatives because they enjoy the private space of the car and its affordances, while they feel anxious and vulnerable in public space [15,276,285-294].”