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.

1997 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 ca

usality 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 y

ear)

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

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.