The Speeding Attitude Scale and the Role of Sensation Seeking in Profiling Young Drivers at Risk

Whissell, Robert; Bigelow, Brian J.

doi:10.1111/1539-6924.00358

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“…Like other studies, a significant relationship was noticed between two variables of risk taking attitude and risky driving behaviors,[3134] It is unlike other studies carried out upon this respect which showed that attitude is predictive of risk taking,[2125] in the present study, risky driving behaviors are a stronger predictors of risk taking in Iranian drivers. However, in these studies it has been mentioned because attitude and behavior are measured simultaneously, it is difficult to claim that attitude is predictive of risk taking.…”

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Investigating the predictive of risk-taking attitudes and behaviors among Iranian drivers

Habibi

Haghi

Maracy

2014

J Edu Health Promot

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Background:World Health Organization findings shows that up to year 2020 the number of fatality due to driving accidents will increases up to 65%, which is 80% is in developing countries. Iran has one of the highest rates of road traffic accident mortality rate in the world.Materials and Methods:The cross-sectional study was carried out in the center and west of Iran upon 540 ordinary and taxi drivers who were driving regularly from bus terminals and the travel agencies to other cities. Data collection tool is a questionnaire that measuring driving risk taking by two items of risky driving behaviors and risk taking attitudes.Findings:The results of this study showed that the averages of risk driving behaviors scores were higher than the average of risk taking attitudes scores. The results of logistic regression test showed that the risky driving behaviors can be a predictor of driving accidents due to individuals’ risk taking (P = 0.014). Among all these variables, attitude toward rule violations and speeding, aggressive driving and violation of the road laws respectively are important predictive of drivers’ risk taking (P < 0.0010).Discussion and Conclusion:Although attitude toward risk taking has been located at a low level by different ways, a desired result was not obtained from the reduction of those high risky behaviors; in fact, high-rate of accidents and traffic incidence in Iran indicates this matter well.

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Investigating the predictive of risk-taking attitudes and behaviors among Iranian drivers

Habibi

Haghi

Maracy

2014

J Edu Health Promot

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“…Also, males consider traffic violations less dangerous than females. Whissell and Bigelow (2003), evinced that accidents could be explained as function of gender, also risky driving bears a more influential factor in male adolescents' injuries and deaths.…”

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Introducing a risk estimation index for drivers: A case of Iran

Moghaddam

Ayati

2014

Safety Science

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“…However, in some of the empirical studies that tested the hypothesis about attitudes as a main determinant of behaviour, it was found that attitudes provide only a partial and limited explanation of intentions or behaviour. For example, Whissell and Bigelow (2003) found no link between attitudes towards speeding and actual reported collisions. By studying drivers' compliance with speed limits, Elliott, Armitage, and Baughan (2003) found very little relationship between attitude and intention.…”

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“…The Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) has a long tradition of being used in explaining individual factors that influence road user safety behaviour (e.g. Armitage and Conner 2001;Conner et al 2007;Elliott, Armitage, and Baughan 2003;Parker et al 1992;Whissell and Bigelow 2003). The model, by definition, only deals with planned behaviour and does not examine wider contextual influences (Avineri 2012).…”

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Legitimising risk taking: articulating dangerous behaviour on the road

Musselwhite

Avineri

Susilo

2013

Transportation Planning and Technology

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Using a deliberative approach 228 members of the public from four locations in the United Kingdom took part in six focus groups that met on three occasions. Applying a model based on two interlocking sets of theories (Ajzen's Theory of Planned Behaviour and Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory) in the analysis of participants' responses, the paper explores the social and environmental systems that an individual interacts with in the articulation of risky behaviours on the road. Participants discussed how taking risks changed over their lifecourse and how they became safer with age. Social norms and perceived behavioural control influence road user safety behaviour through the exchanging of attitudes, and younger drivers especially are more likely to embrace the symbolic role of the car. The paper concludes that the nature of identity and culture within risk taking is important when designing interventions on the ground. IntroductionThis paper takes the stance that the road environment is a social situation, with actors or agents that interact and influence one another (Haglund and Åberg 2000). As O'Connell (2002) states, the design and construction of the road and traffic system 'must not be based on an erroneous model of humans as abstract rational actors, isolated from their social context and operating on purely "objective" criteria' (201). As such, road user safety can be viewed as not just skills-based and rule-governed, but also in terms of being an expressive activity (Reason et al. 2001). Hence, for a full understanding of road user safety and for interventions to be successful, the social nature of the road user environment must be taken into account and the attitudes of road users examined. Research investigating the social nature of road user safety has previously focused on three key areas, attitudes towards road user safety, social norms and perceived behavioural control (PBC; for a review of literature see Musselwhite et al. 2010a).In Western societies, research suggests that road users have a good understanding of the speed and collision link; where higher speeds increase the likelihood of a collision and the severity of casualty from the collision (e.g. Higginson 2005; Quimby 2005).

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The Speeding Attitude Scale and the Role of Sensation Seeking in Profiling Young Drivers at Risk

Cited by 54 publications

References 17 publications

Investigating the predictive of risk-taking attitudes and behaviors among Iranian drivers

Investigating the predictive of risk-taking attitudes and behaviors among Iranian drivers

Introducing a risk estimation index for drivers: A case of Iran

Legitimising risk taking: articulating dangerous behaviour on the road

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