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Title:

Risk Attitude, Perception, Behavior, and Personality as Indicators of a Driver’s Risk Awareness in China
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Accession Number:

01504539

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

As the driver is the information recipient and primary decision maker in the driving process, this research aims to investigate a driver’s risk awareness to assess a driver’s safety. The authors developed a scale for assessing a driver’s risk awareness, which consists of four scales: Risk Attitude (48 items), Risk Perception (22 items) and Risk Behavior (27 items) scale, and the Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS) (14 items). The first three scales together cover 14 indicators, and the same 14 indicators are dealt with in the sensation seeking scale. The 14 indicators are named second class indices, such as the general attitude towards obeying rules, aggressive violations and awareness of safe driving, etc. In this study, in order to develop a risk awareness model, a survey was conducted in China. Based on the survey, exploratory factor analysis of the scale revealed three risk awareness factors (risk attitude, risk perception and risk behavior), also named first class indices. The respective weights of the 14 second class indices and the 3 first class indices were calculated. Results of statistically analyzing the survey showed that some drivers in our study have a high risk awareness. In addition, a diagram was constructed based on the regression analysis of a driver’s sensation seeking and risk awareness indices. It appeared that the higher the driver’s SSS, the lower the driver’s risk awareness.

Supplemental Notes:

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Monograph Accession #:

01501394

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

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Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Zhang, Qiong
Fu, Rui
Guo, Yuxi
Guo, Yingshi
Yuan, Wei
Wang, Chang
Wu, Fuwei
Ma, Yong

Pagination:

13p

Publication Date:

2011

Conference:

3rd International Conference on Road Safety and Simulation

Location: Indianapolis Indiana, United States
Date: 2011-9-14 to 2011-9-16
Sponsors: Purdue University; Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

China

Subject Areas:

Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 23 2014 10:44AM