Driver Stress and Driving Performance

A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial (Crct) Evaluation of a Pre-Driver Education Intervention Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour

“…The adapted survey used for this study focused on future task focused coping such as efforts to drive safely when demands are high (i.e., slowing down and being more vigilant). A consistent relationship between the Driver Stress Inventory and DCQ scales have been established (Matthews, Desmond, Joyner, Carcary & Gilliland, 1997;Dorn, 2021), suggesting that coping mediates the associations between driver stress vulnerability and stress outcomes. Task focused coping has been positively correlated with alertness and hazard monitoring, suggesting that drivers who focus on the problem appear to direct their efforts towards the task itself by adopting rational strategies such as information seeking, taking precautions, and making plans.…”

Analysis of coping capacities and cognitive biases of novice drivers—A questionnaire-based study

“…Driver stress occurs primarily when individuals perceive their driving ability to be insufficient to manage the demands and hazards of driving [20,22]. Driver stress is transactional in nature, eliciting qualitatively different patterns of stress response, coping strategies, and driving performance [22][23][24][25]. In emergency situations, time constraints may result in perceptions that internal resources are insufficient to accomplish tasks effectively [26,27].…”