Beyond the threat of legal sanctions: What deters speeding behaviours?

Truelove, Verity; Freeman, James E.; Szogi, Elizabeth; Kaye, Sherrie-Anne; Davey, Jeremy D.; Armstrong, Kerry

doi:10.1016/j.trf.2017.08.008

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“…Again, as our study has found, younger age groups, independent of nomophobia, are more likely to engage in dangerous use, which is supported by much of the research around use while driving, cycling and walking [ 60 , 64 ]. This finding could be understood by a multitude of factors, such as the group’s proclivity for taking more risk [ 53 ] and deficient risk judgement skills [ 65 ], or in the case of road safety, their sense of invincibility [ 66 ], low perceptions around the certainty of apprehension [ 67 , 68 ] or engagement with compensatory driving or phone behaviours [ 69 ].…”

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Nomophobia: Is the Fear of Being without a Smartphone Associated with Problematic Use?

Kaviani

Robards

Young

et al. 2020

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Mobile phones are changing behaviour, relationships, communication and the dynamics of physical environments. As such, reliance on the device for everyday activities has increased. Consequently, “nomophobia”, defined as the fear of being without one’s mobile phone, has emerged as a new phobia. The current study aimed to determine if nomophobia can increase the likelihood of problematic dependent, prohibited and dangerous mobile phone use. The sample comprised 2838 participants (males n = 1337 females n = 1501) recruited from various online platforms. The instrument used to measure nomophobia was the Nomophobia Questionnaire (NMP-Q), while problematic mobile phone use was measured using the Problematic Mobile Phone Use Questionnaire (PMPUQ-R). The findings revealed a strong positive correlation between nomophobia and all three problematic use factors. In addition to nomophobia, regression models revealed younger age and more time spent on a mobile phone per day significantly increased problematic dependency, prohibited use and dangerous use. Males were more likely to engage in prohibited and dangerous use, while no significant gender differences were found in dependent use. These findings support the need for further research into the relationship between nomophobia and specific aspects of problematic mobile phone use, such as using a mobile phone while driving.

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Nomophobia: Is the Fear of Being without a Smartphone Associated with Problematic Use?

Kaviani

Robards

Young

et al. 2020

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“…Legal sanctions providing general apprehension certainty were not correlated with speeding behaviour (Truelove et al., 2017). Instead, material and physical losses as well as personal apprehension of severity and certainty were found to be significant factors in speeding deterrence.…”

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“…Traffic rule compliance was associated with the perception of certainty and severity of sanction execution. Drivers mostly are not aware of the details of sanctions for traffic rule violation and indicate that their compliance will depend upon the severity of sanctions (Truelove et al., 2017). In addition, monetary fines were less powerful as a sanction than penalty points on the driver's licence (Chen et al., 2020).…”

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“…Other prominent factors are the demographic characteristics of individuals. Younger adults showed higher probability to be involved in risky driving, including driving deviation and violations, while older adults were more frequently mistaken in determining another vehicles’ speed (Brookland et al., 2008; Truelove et al., 2017). Older adults also claimed to have higher level of discomfort during driving than younger ones (Fancello et al., 2020).…”

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“…Truelove et al. (2017) found a non-significant effect of apprehension due to legal sanctions on speeding. In contrast, another recent study revealed that increasing the penalty for violation did lower the speeding probability (Zhao et al., 2019).…”

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Examining drivers’ socio-demographic variables and perceptions towards sanction mechanisms on speeding behaviour on highways: targeting appropriate prevention

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Investigating the underlying predictors of speeding behaviour deserves the full attention of research. This study aims to examine the effects of demographic variables on the perceived deterrent mechanisms and to predict speeding behaviour to target appropriate prevention programmes. In this study, 212 randomly selected drivers having a valid car driving licence participated in an online survey. The results revealed that demographic variables influenced drivers’ perceptions towards social and legal sanctions as well as material loss. The model revealed that two sanction-related constructs, that is, legal sanction (b = −0⋅227, P = 0⋅007) and material loss (b = −0⋅218, P = 0⋅005), as well as lax perception towards traffic accident (b = −0⋅176, P = 0⋅025), were the significant predictors of speeding behaviour. These findings suggested that prevention programmes should prioritise young and single drivers. The most effective targeted prevention programmes are highlighted accordingly based on the study results.

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Examining the Effect of Speeding Patterns on Speeding-Related Harsh Decelerations for Commercial Drivers with Survival Analysis

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Beyond the threat of legal sanctions: What deters speeding behaviours?

Cited by 51 publications

References 23 publications

Nomophobia: Is the Fear of Being without a Smartphone Associated with Problematic Use?

Nomophobia: Is the Fear of Being without a Smartphone Associated with Problematic Use?

Examining drivers’ socio-demographic variables and perceptions towards sanction mechanisms on speeding behaviour on highways: targeting appropriate prevention

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