Elderly drivers' everyday behavior as a predictor of crash involvement--Questionnaire responses by drivers' family members
| Autor: | Yasuhiko Kumagai, Yoshinori Nakagawa, Kaechang Park |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Engineering Automobile Driving Applied psychology Poison control Human Factors and Ergonomics Crash Computer security computer.software_genre Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health Predictive Value of Tests Internal consistency Surveys and Questionnaires Injury prevention Humans Family Safety Risk Reliability and Quality Geriatric Assessment Aged Aged 80 and over business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Accidents Traffic Human factors and ergonomics Crash risk Logistic Models Female business human activities computer |
| Zdroj: | Accident; analysis and prevention. 50 |
| ISSN: | 1879-2057 |
| Popis: | When or whether elderly drivers stop driving is concerning not only to the drivers themselves but also to their family members. Therefore, it is important for family members to take the initiative if they wish to obtain information on the likelihood of the drivers' involvement in crashes. On the basis of the older drivers' Everyday Behavior Questionnaire (EBQ) developed in this paper, we attempt to predict drivers' involvement in crashes using the responses given by their family members. The results revealed that this 14-item questionnaire has a sufficient level of internal consistency as well as a significant correlation (r=0.29) with the experience of involvement in crashes in the last three years (p0.01). Although the EBQ is a proxy-reported questionnaire and does not include items directly related to driving behaviors, the correlation between the EBQ and crash involvement is stronger than that of the self-reported Driver Behavior Questionnaire reported in deWinter and Dodou (2010), who conducted a meta-analysis and estimated the overall correlation among samples of earlier studies. In addition, logistic regression analysis showed that the EBQ score and the exposure to driving risks, measured by the frequency of driving, are significant predictors of involvement in crashes. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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