Driver personality characteristics related to self-reported accident involvement and mobile phone use while driving 學生:莊靖玟

Purpose This study to clarify the effect of mobile phone use on driving safety. This study was to examine how personal driver characteristics would affect drivers’ mobile phone usage habits while driving.

Reference 年份 學者 結果 1969 Brown et al. found a reduction in speed and an increased number of judgmental mistakes to be the result of using by a headset telephone while driving. 1997 Haigney suggested that mobile phone use may result in a reduced allocation of attention to the task of driving with consequentially poorer driving performance. Redelmeier and Tibshirani also demonstrated that mobile telephone use while driving results in diminished traffic safety.

Methods Causal model development The causal model to reflect the possible causality of mobile phone use and traffic accidents. hypothesized that in general causing traffic accidents, the dominant cause was driver characteristics.

Methods Survey sample→Subject 194 licensed car drivers.(127M,67F) Their average age was 41.6 years. Used mobile phone almost every day. Have driving experience. (more than one year)

Methods Survey sample→Questionnaire Behavioral questionnaire Accident proneness questionnaire (APQ) Driving aggressiveness questionnaire

Behavioral questionnaire driver background (i.e., sex, age, education level, job) mobile phone use habits while driving (i.e., frequency, mobile phone type) perceived risk self-evaluated driving skill and safety self-reported involvement in traffic accidents due to mobile phone use

Behavioral questionnaire (Example) To what extent do you feel driving safety is affected by mobile phone use? a. Very much b. Quite c. Somewhat d. Little e. Not at all

Accident proneness questionnaire(APQ) Section 1 was introductory and concerned with general health Section 2 concerned personal accidents and injuries Section 3 was concerned with breakage and so on.

Driving aggressiveness questionnaire Example： Driving usually makes me feel aggressive choose “yes”, “no”, or “maybe” Seven questions “yes” to more than three questions → aggressive drivers. “no” to more than three questions → non-aggressive drivers. an exclusive group, non-significant in aggressiveness

Results

Results

Discussion Peck et al., 1971 Evans, 1991 學者年份 Peck et al., 1971 Evans, 1991 得到結果 Gender has consistently been found to be related to driver accident risk, with males having more accidents than females. 研究結果 In self-reported accidents due to mobile phone usage there was no significant difference between the sexes

Conclusions Overall prohibition in mobile phone use while driving is needed to reduce the number of traffic accidents.