چکیده:
Objective: There are not enough good instruments for assessing driving behavior in Iran. This
study aimed to investigate factor structure, convergent and divergent validity, and reliability of
driving behavior survey (DBS).
Methods: The study method is descriptive and survey. Participants comprised 147 Sample
selected by convenient method. Iranian drivers who completed DBS, Manchester driver
behavior questionnaire, trait anxiety scale, and trait anger scale.
Results: findings showed that 3 factors of DBS could explain 39% of total variance. Anxietybased
performance deficits, exaggerated safety and caution behaviors, and hostility/aggressive
behaviors were 3 factors of DBS. There were convergent correlations between DBS subscales
and common driving mistakes and traffic rules violations. Cronbach’s alpha was estimated
0.77, 0.65 and 0.70 for subscales.
Conclusion: Driving behavior survey has convincing psychometrical features. It could be
used in general population and clinical settings for investigating anxious drivers
خلاصه ماشینی:
"Previous studies have demonstrated that different drivers’ behaviors such as cognitive errors and deliberate violations of traffic * Corresponding Author: Hamid Khanipour, PhD Address: Institute of Educational, Psychological and Social Research, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran.
Previous studies have shown that individuals with higher levels of anxiety are more prone to engage in car accidents (Dula, Adams, Miesner, and Leonard, 2010), and anxious style in driving is associated with low consciousness and higher level of neu- roticism (Taubman-Ben-Ari, Yehiel, 2012; Poó, Ledesma, 2013).
So this study aimed to evaluate factor structure, reliability, and convergent validity of DBS and to investigate the relationship between anxiety- related behaviors and some well-known errors and violation behaviors during motor vehicle driving.
The third subscale is consisted of impulsive and aggressive behaviors (due to high level of anxiety) like honking the horn or hitting other drivers’ cars (Clapp, Olsen, Beck, Paylo, Grant, and Gud- mundsdottir et al.
This result is consistent with other studies conducted for assessing factor structure of DBS among undergraduate students and individuals with a history of road accidents (Clapp, Olsen, Beck, Paylo, Avoidance which is the behavioral manifestation of anxiety may be transformed into exaggerated safety and caution behaviors in driving.
This finding supported previous studies which highlighted the importance of anxiety-based performance deficits as the main problem of anxious driving (Clapp, Olsen, Beck, Paylo, Grant, and Gudmundsdottir et al.
There were significant relationships between anxiety- based performance deficits and all kinds of errors and traffic rules violations in driving, confirming the con- vergent validity of DBS."