Associations between age, gender, psychosocial and health characteristics in the Candrive II study cohort

Attitudes: Mediators of the Relation between Health and Driving in Older Adults

“…In the current study, we used longitudinal data to examine the relations among health, attitudes, perceptions, and self-regulatory driving behaviours. The results of this study replicate the fi ndings of other studies in that strong links were observed between perceived health and driving behaviours, perceived health and driving attitudes and perceptions, and driving attitudes and perceptions and self-regulatory driving behaviours (e.g., Edwards et al, 2009 ;Jouk et al, 2014 ;O'Connor et al, 2011 ;Tuokko et al, 2013 ). We extended this existing literature by testing whether driving attitudes and perceptions play mediating roles in the observed relations between perceived health and self-regulatory driving behaviours of older adults over the fi rst data collection points of the longitudinal Candrive II study cohort.…”

“…investigation involving a large sample ( n = 928) of Canadians aged 70 and older, Tuokko et al ( 2013 ) found that driving comfort (during the day and at night), perceived driving ability, negative perceptions of one's own driving, and perceptions that others hold negative views about one's driving were all signifi cantly related to various measures of perceived health status.…”

The Impact of Selected Individual and External Factors on the Occurrence of Severe Injuries: Case Study of Slovenia

“…in comparison to males [8,12]. In their research Tuokko et al, [7] studied the relations among driving-related psychosocial measures (e.g., driving comfort, attitudes toward driving) and measures of self-reported health in the context of driver's age and gender. Older men reported significantly higher levels of driving comfort than older women.…”

“…While some studies refer to all the types of road participants others focus on specific ones [5]. Several factors that proved to be significantly influential for the prevalence of road traffic accidents were determined; socio-economic, demographic and behavioural determinants as well as environmental determinants and their effect on the severity of injuries were studied [5][6][7][8]. In this paper the demographic (gender and age), behavioural (attitude to wear the seat belt) and several environmental determinants of road traffic accident injuries are studied.…”

Characterization of Stable-Health Older Drivers Using Low-Speed Driving Maneuvers From In-Vehicle Sensor Data

“…Preliminary studies of Candrive mainly focus on the analysis of the data collected in the baseline year. Tuokko et al [59] examined "age and gender differences on several psychosocial measures developed specifically for older drivers, as well as associations with health-related measures". They found that older drivers felt less comfortable driving than younger drivers and men felt more comfortable driving compared to women, concluding that the age and gender influenced attitudes towards driving.…”