A new addition to DBQ: Positive Driver Behaviours Scale

Car driver attitudes, perceptions of social norms and aggressive driving behaviour towards cyclists

“…Aggressive driving towards cyclists and perceived social norms of aggressive driving towards cyclists were assessed using a modified version of the DAIS (Driver Anger Indicators Scale; Özkan and Lajunen, 2005; see Table 1 for the items). This scale had originally been designed for general aggressive driving behaviour and the perception of related norms.…”

“…As we had modified the scale to use it in the context of driving towards cyclists, we tested the structure of this altered scale using exploratory factor analysis, extracting two factors (based on the theoretical model by Özkan and Lajunen, 2005). The initial factor analysis, which included all items, did not return clear factor loadings as a large number of items had only weak loadings on both factors or loaded on both factors (see Appendix).…”

Age, gender, mileage and the DBQ: The validity of the Driver Behavior Questionnaire in different driver groups

“…The DBQ has over the years been applied in numerous countries for example; Qatar and United Arab Emirates (Bener et al, 2008), USA (Owsley et al, 2003), China (Xie and Parker, 2002), Australia (Blockey and Hartley, 1995;Davey et al, 2007;Dobson et al, 1999;Lawton et al, 1997), Sweden (Rimmö and Hakamies-Blomqvist, 2002;Åberg and Rimmö, 1998;Åberg and Warner, 2008), Greece (Kontogiannis et al, 2002), The Netherlands (Lajunen et al, 1999), Spain (Gras et al, 2006), France (Obriot-Claudel and Gabaude, 2004), New Zealand (Sullman et al, 2000), Turkey (Özkan and Lajunen, 2005;Sümer, 2003), and UK (Parker et al, 1995;Reason et al, 1990). However, the factorial structures of the DBQ as well as the number of items vary between different driving cultures and nations.…”

Advancing simulation-based driver training

“…Others have repeated and extended this work. For example, demographic differences and the relation of violations and errors to road accidents have been investigated (Åberg & Rimmö, 1998;Blockey & Hartley, 1995;Kontogiannis et al, 2002;Lajunen et al, 2004;Mesken et al, 2002;Özkan & Lajunen, 2005;Parker et al, 1998;Rimmö & Åberg, 1999;Xie & Parker, 2002).…”