The relationship between leisure time and driving style in two groups of male drivers

Møller, Mette; Sigurdardottir, Sigrun Birna

doi:10.1016/j.trf.2009.08.005

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“…Indeed, the car can be an extension of the driver themselves, used as a form of self-expression by the young driver during their driving journeys (e.g., OECD, 2006). Consistent with this notion, quantitative and qualitative research alike repeatedly demonstrates that driving serves an important psychosocial function for the young person, such as facilitating time spent with friends (e.g., carrying them as passengers, travelling to their homes or other social outings) (e.g., Christmas, 2007;Moller & Gregersen, 2008;Moller & Sigurdardottir, 2009). More broadly, young driver lifestyle characteristics have also been found to relate to their driving style (e.g., see Gregersen & Berg, 1994;Moller, 2004;Moller & Haustein, 2013).…”

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The psychosocial purpose of driving and its relationship with the risky driving behaviour of young novice drivers

Scott‐Parker

King

Watson

2015

Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviou

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The psychosocial purpose of driving and its relationship with the risky driving behaviour of young novice drivers

Scott‐Parker

King

Watson

2015

Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviou

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“…Thus the results indicate that indirect passive peer pressure may influence young male drivers to speed more than they actually want to. Due to age related factors such as lifestyle (Gregersen and Berg, 1994;Møller and Sigurðardóttir, 2009), general level of maturity (Reyna and Farley, 2006) and limited driving experience they may end up speeding in high risk situations that they are unable to handle and end up in speeding related crashes. The more experienced drivers (the 28-year olds) may choose more "suitable" speeding situations, which would explain why they less often end up in speeding related accidents despite speeding more often.…”

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Peer influence on speeding behaviour among male drivers aged 18 and 28

Møller

Haustein

2014

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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Despite extensive research, preventive efforts and general improvements in road safety levels, the accident risk of young male drivers remains increased. Based on a standardized survey of a random sample of 2018 male drivers at the age of 18 and 28, this study looked into attitudes and behaviours related to traffic violations of male drivers. More specifically, the role of peer influence on speeding was examined in both age groups. In regression analyses it could be shown that the descriptive subjective norm, i.e., the perception of friends' speeding, was the most important predictor of speeding in both age groups. Other significant factors were: negative attitude towards speed limits, injunctive subjective norm, and the perceived risk of having an accident when speeding. In the older age group it was more common to drive faster than allowed and their speeding was largely in line with the perceived level of their friends' speeding. In the younger age group a higher discrepancy between own and friends' speeding was found indicating that young male drivers are socialized into increased speeding behaviour based on peer pressure. By contrast for the 28-year-olds peer pressure mainly seems to maintain or justify individual speeding behaviour. It is suggested that preventive measures should take these different influences of peer pressure into account by using a peer-based approach for the 18-year-olds and a more individual approach for the 28-year-olds.

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“…Firstly, it can result in a restriction of behaviour that may result in maladaptive consequences. Higher levels of anxiety are generally positively correlated with a higher frequency of, and preferences for, low self-paced activities such as housework and reading, as opposed to driving (Moller & Siguroardottir, 2009). This may be due to the fact that anxiety can lead to preoccupying and dysfunctional thoughts (da Findings on both physiological and behavioural measures indicate that there is some evidence that anxiety may be detrimental to driving.…”

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“…On this basis, videos of driving videos represent the definite, external threat that may be theoretically interpreted as fear whilst the more objectless aspect of threat is evident in trait anxiety. Trait, rather than state, was chosen on the basis that the majority of driving research has found significant differences with trait rather than state anxiety (Pourabdian & Azmoon, 2013;Moller & Siguroardottir, 2009). There were two key questions being investigated.…”

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Are anxiety and fear separable emotions in driving? A laboratory study of behavioural and physiological responses to different driving environments

Barnard

Chapman

2016

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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(2016) Are anxiety and fear separable emotions in driving?: laboratory study of behavioural and physiological responses to different driving environments. Accident, Analysis and Prevention, Access from the University of Nottingham repository: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46799/1/Barnard%20and%20Chapman%202016%20for %20eprints.pdf Copyright and reuse:The Nottingham ePrints service makes this work by researchers of the University of Nottingham available open access under the following conditions. This article is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives licence and may be reused according to the conditions of the licence. For more details see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ A note on versions:The version presented here may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the repository url above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription. 1 Are Anxiety and Fear Separable Emotions in Driving? A Laboratory Study of Behavioural and Physiological Responses to Different Driving Environments.Barnard, M.P*., & Chapman, P. School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom AbstractResearch into anxiety and driving has indicated that those higher in anxiety are potentially more dangerous on the roads. However, simulator findings suggest that conclusions are mixed at best. It is possible that anxiety is becoming confused with fear, which has a focus on more clearly defined sources of threat from the environment, as opposed to the internal, thought-related process associated with anxiety. This research aimed to measure feelings of fear, as well as physiological and attentional reactions to increasing levels of accident risk.Trait anxiety was also measured to see if it interacted with levels of risk or its associated reactions. Participants watched videos of driving scenarios with varying levels of accident risk and had to rate how much fear they would feel if they were the driver of the car, whilst skin conductance, heart rate, and eye movements were recorded. Analysis of the data suggested that perceptions of fear increased with increasing levels of accident risk, and skin conductance reflected this pattern. Eye movements, when considered alongside reaction times, indicated different patterns of performance according to different dangerous situations.These effects were independent of trait anxiety, which was only associated with higher rates of disliking driving and use of maladaptive coping mechanisms on questionnaires. It is concluded that these results could provide useful evidence in support for training-based programs; it may also be beneficial to study trait anxiety within a more immersive driving environment and on a larger scale. 2Keywords: anxiety, fear, emotion, environmental arousal, somatic marker. IntroductionIt has become increasingly apparent in recent studies ...

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The relationship between leisure time and driving style in two groups of male drivers

Cited by 16 publications

References 29 publications

The psychosocial purpose of driving and its relationship with the risky driving behaviour of young novice drivers

The psychosocial purpose of driving and its relationship with the risky driving behaviour of young novice drivers

Peer influence on speeding behaviour among male drivers aged 18 and 28

Are anxiety and fear separable emotions in driving? A laboratory study of behavioural and physiological responses to different driving environments

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