Self-rated confidence and on-road driving performance among older adults

Riendeau, Julie; Maxwell, Hillary; Patterson, Loretta; Weaver, Bruce; Bédard, Michel

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“…their driving ability, and that most of them overestimated their performance (Broberg & DukicWillstrand, 2014;Freund et al, 2005 ;Marottoli & Richardson, 1998 ;Riendeau et al, 2016 ;Selander et al, 2011). The proportion of drivers with inaccurate self-awareness reported in our study was higher than in previous research (70% vs. 40-50%) (Broberg & Dukic Willstrand, 2014;Freund et al, 2005;Riendeau et al, 2016).…”

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“…eDOS = electronic Driving Observation Schedule; PDA = Perceived Driving Ability driving observation as a reference criterion. Whereas previous studies adopted either a standard on-road driving evaluation (Broberg & Dukic Willstrand, 2014;Riendeau et al, 2016;Selander et al, 2011), a driving simulation (Freund et al, 2005), in-office functional assessments (Ackerman et al, 2010;MacDonald et al, 2008), and/or adverse driving history events (Marottoli & Richardson, 1998) to evaluate how accurately older drivers perceive their driving ability, this study used a more ecological, meaningful approach. Driving performance was assessed in the participants' own vehicle, in a familiar neighborhood, using routes selected by the participants, and they were told to drive as they do every day without any interference from the evaluator.…”

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“…Most studies on this topic have not found a correlation between older adults' perceived driving ability and their actual driving performance (Brown et al, 2005;Hunt, Morris, Edwards, & Wilson, 1993;Marottoli & Richardson, 1998;Riendeau, Maxwell, Patterson, Weaver, & Bedard, 2016;Selander et al, 2011), but the approaches used to measure the accuracy of self-awareness may not have provided a valid measure of perceived driving ability and actual driving performance. Many previous studies asked older drivers to compare their driving ability to that of others (Broberg & Dukic Willstrand, 2014;Freund et al, 2005;Selander et al, 2011;Windsor, Anstey, & Walker, 2008).…”

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Personal and Clinical Factors Associated with Older Drivers’ Self-Awareness of Driving Performance

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Most older adults perceive themselves as good drivers; however, their perception may not be accurate, and could negatively affect their driving safety. This study examined the accuracy of older drivers’ self-awareness of driving ability in their everyday driving environment by determining the concordance between the perceived (assessed by the Perceived Driving Ability [PDA] questionnaire) and actual (assessed by electronic Driving Observation Schedule [eDOS]) driving performance. One hundred and eight older drivers (male: 67.6%; age: mean = 80.6 years, standard deviation [SD] = 4.9 years) who participated in the study were classified into three groups: underestimation (19%), accurate estimation (29%), and overestimation (53%). Using the demographic and clinical functioning information collected in the Candrive annual assessments, an ordinal regression showed that two factors were related to the accuracy of self-awareness: older drivers with better visuo-motor processing speed measured by the Trail Making Test (TMT)-A and fewer self-reported comorbid conditions tended to overestimate their driving ability, and vice versa.

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“…The perception that fewer fatal crashes will occur due to the tendency of older drivers to avoid long-distance driving and to drive only to familiar places may also have affected the results of the present study. However, it is already known that self-rated driving confidence and on-road driving performance among older drivers have little association [43]. In the future, it will be necessary to strengthen police enforcement for unfastened seat belts for all drivers of large vehicles, and education and public relations related to the degradation of driving performance and the importance of seat belt use for older drivers.…”

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Comparison of traffic collision victims between older and younger drivers in South Korea: Epidemiologic characteristics, risk factors and types of collisions

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Objective This study aimed to show the epidemiological characteristics and the difference in the risk factors and types of collision between older and younger drivers in Korea. Methods We collected data from the Emergency Department-based Injury In-depth Surveillance retrieved by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2011 to 2015. We included injured drivers aged ≥ 18 years who were registered in the database, who were limited to drivers of four-wheeled vehicles. The enrolled patients were divided according to age into older (≥ 65 years) and younger (< 65 years) drivers. The total number of enrolled drivers was 37,511; 2,361 (6.3%) of them were older drivers. The epidemiological characteristics (e.g., age, sex, fatality rate) of traffic collision victims for 5 years were determined, and the risk factors (e.g., seat belt use) and types of collision (single- vs. multi-vehicle) between the two groups were compared. Results The median age and interquartile range (IQR; 25 th and 75 th percentiles) of all drivers were 41.0 (IQR, 32.0–52.0), and 24,544 (65.4%) of them were men. The median age increased from 40.0 (IQR, 31.0–50.0) to 43.0 (IQR, 33.0–54.0) between 2010 and 2015 ( P < 0.001). The proportion of older drivers increased from 5.0% to 8.4% annually during the study period ( P < 0.001). Between 2010 and 2015, the fatality rate decreased from 3.1% to 1.2% ( P = 0.287) for older drivers and from 0.9% to 0.5% ( P = 0.009) for younger drivers. The proportion of single-vehicle collision (25.9% vs. 20.3%) was higher in older than in younger drivers ( P < 0.001). Older drivers had a lower rate of seat-belt use than younger drivers (79.0% vs. 83.0%, P < 0.001). Conclusions The proportion of older drivers increased annually during the study period, and older drivers experienced more single-vehicle collision and used seat belt less frequently than younger drivers. A national policy support to reduce traffic collision in older drivers and public relation activities to enhance their seat belt use should be strengthened in the future.

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“…The validity of Confidence in decision-making might further extend past working life and into implications for older adults. In a study of driver confidence among community-dwelling older adults, Reindeau et al identified that Confidence in driving ability was unrelated to on-road driving performance [46]. These findings suggest that older adults might continue to drive based on a faulty degree of confidence in their skill.…”

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The psychometric properties of confidence: structure across cultures in working adult samples.

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Rose²,

McCormack³

2016

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Confidence reflects a belief or faith in oneself, and is measured by embedding ratings within ability tests. The research declaring cross-cultural invariance has examined Confidence using exploratory factor analysis. This is limited to exploring the overall structure or configural invariance, of Confidence. The aim of this study was to examine the measurement invariance of Confidence across two cultural samples, using multi-group confirmatory factor analysis (MGCFA) to extend our knowledge of its structure to metric (item loadings) and scalar (item intercept) properties. In contrast to previous research on school-age children, participants were 1522 adults from Australia (N=833) and Thailand (N=689) who completed the ebilities MAS-2 cognitive ability tests online. Separate confirmatory factor analyses in the cultural samples indicated an acceptable fit of a model with one latent factor representing Confidence. Results of MGCFA supported the configural, metric, and scalar invariance of Confidence across cultures. Evidence for the invariance of a one-factor structure was found across the two national samples. Implications and future research directions in the domain of selection and assessment are discussed.

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Self-rated confidence and on-road driving performance among older adults

Abstract: Confidence in driving ability bears little relationship to on-road performance. Future research should examine approaches to foster a better match between self-assessments and actual abilities among drivers.

Cited by 15 publications

References 37 publications

Personal and Clinical Factors Associated with Older Drivers’ Self-Awareness of Driving Performance

Personal and Clinical Factors Associated with Older Drivers’ Self-Awareness of Driving Performance

Comparison of traffic collision victims between older and younger drivers in South Korea: Epidemiologic characteristics, risk factors and types of collisions

The psychometric properties of confidence: structure across cultures in working adult samples.

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