Occupant Protection Behavior

Research on restraint use by people inside the vehicle: adult seat belt use and child passenger safety.

What's here. Two kinds of work: seat belt use — who buckles up, in which seating positions, and how use is observed or self-reported — and child passenger safety, covering car seats, boosters, and the restraint of child occupants.

What isn't here.

• how carrying passengers changes the driver's behavior (peer presence, in-car social influence) — Driver Psychology, Style & Traits. Easy mix-up with child passenger safety here. This shelf treats passengers as occupants to be restrained; passenger effects treats them as an influence on the person driving.
• belt and child-restraint laws, primary vs. secondary enforcement, and citation-based programs — Policy & Enforcement. Restraint use is measured here; the statutes and enforcement that target it are evaluated there.
• campaigns and programs designed to raise belt or car-seat use, including parent-directed instruction — Training, Education & Intervention. Countermeasure design and evaluation sits with training and education, not with the restraint-use literature itself.