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dc.contributor.advisorKnizek, Birthe Loanb_NO
dc.contributor.advisorJohannesen, Berit Overånb_NO
dc.contributor.authorNnajjuma, Hellennb_NO
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-19T14:43:21Z
dc.date.available2014-12-19T14:43:21Z
dc.date.created2014-07-14nb_NO
dc.date.issued2013nb_NO
dc.identifier734081nb_NO
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/271244
dc.description.abstractThe aim of this study was to explore how psychosocial lived experiences of taxi drivers explain accident involvement in Uganda. Face to face in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with six male taxi drivers who survived accidents while driving and still served as taxi drivers. The sample was identified with purposive and snowball sampling techniques. Ethical considerations were observed during data collection through transcription, analysis to the final compilation. Interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) was employed to each participant’s discernment of the specific and general accounts of accident narratives in a bid to make "sense" of their lived worlds as drivers and accident involvement. Three superordinate themes illuminating accidents emerged out of the data: typical routines of taxi drivers; the socio-cultural context; and the taxi drivers’ community. These were discussed based on relevant theories and previous studies as well as pertinent concepts. Considering the study results, typical routines of taxi drivers, driver community factors and social/cultural factors affect each other, these together leave driver-accident involvement inevitable. Categorically such factors include; age, formal education, driving training, driver health status, domestic concerns, significant others, competitive driving / worse-worse, other road users, Impulsive pick and drop-off of passengers, theft, driver stress, state of the road, state of the vehicle among others. Thus behavioural and cognitive remedies are herein suggested towards ameliorative and/or transformative processes of the accident endemic.nb_NO
dc.languageengnb_NO
dc.publisherNorges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Fakultet for samfunnsvitenskap og teknologiledelse, Psykologisk instituttnb_NO
dc.subjectUganda; taxi drivers; psychosocial factors; road traffic accidentsen_GB
dc.subjectIPAen_GB
dc.titleRoad Traffic Accidents in Uganda in view of Taxi Drivers Masaka Districtnb_NO
dc.typeMaster thesisnb_NO
dc.source.pagenumber113nb_NO
dc.contributor.departmentNorges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Fakultet for samfunnsvitenskap og teknologiledelse, Psykologisk instituttnb_NO


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