Self-Assessed Driving Skills and Risky Driver Behaviour Among Young Drivers: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Autor:	Lajunen T; Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway., Sullman MJM; Department of Social Sciences, University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus., Gaygısız E; Department of Economics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Frontiers in psychology [Front Psychol] 2022 Apr 13; Vol. 13, pp. 840269. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Apr 13 (Print Publication: 2022).
DOI:	10.3389/fpsyg.2022.840269
Abstrakt:	The first few years of driving is a critical period when driving skills develop and the driving style is established. While the actual driving skills improve during the first few years of driving, a novice driver's view of himself/herself as a safe and/or skilful driver also develops rapidly. The aim of this study was to investigate self-evaluated driver safety and perceptual-motor skills among different age groups of young drivers, along with the relationships between self-evaluated skills and driving behaviour. The sample consisted of a stratified random sample of 18-25-year-old drivers from the Finnish driving licence register. The questionnaires, which included the Driver Skill Inventory (DSI), Driver Behaviour Questionnaire (DBQ) and background information, were completed and returned by a total of 1,058 participants. While female drivers assessed their safety skills to be higher than their perceptual-motor skills, the opposite was true for males. In both sexes, perceptual-motor skills increased, and safety skills decreased with experience. Perceptual-motor skills correlated negatively with safety skills, lapses and errors, but positively with aggressive and ordinary violations. Safety skills correlated negatively with all DBQ variables. Safety orientation seems to be most clearly reflected in deliberate aberrant driving behaviours. Sex differences were observed in the development of behaviours and skills, perceptual-motor skills only increased with age among males, while safety skills decreased through experience among both men and women. Results showed that driving experience was strongly related to both driving style (violations, errors) and the drivers' view of their skills (safety orientation), highlighting the importance of the first few years of driving. Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. (Copyright © 2022 Lajunen, Sullman and Gaygısız.)
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