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Title:

Young Drivers’ Risky Driving 15 Months After Licensure: Role of Intervention, Attitudes Toward Accompanied Driving, and Parents’ Risk

Accession Number:

01624314

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

An indispensable issue in contemporary research on risk-taking by young drivers is the parents’ influence on their offspring’s driving behavior. The current study measures the influence by using a risk index of parents’ driving behavior from in-vehicle data recorders together with young drivers’ self-reported answers to a set of questionnaires. Both parents and young drivers also participated in one of four intervention program groups to enhance safe driving. The aim of the current study was to assess the contribution of parents’ driving behavior, participation in the intervention, and teen drivers’ attitudes towards accompanied driving as measured six months after licensure, to the reported risky driving of the young drivers fifteen months after receiving their driving license. The data consist of a sample of 78 parent-young driver dyads who were assigned randomly to one of three intervention groups (receiving different forms of feedback) or a control group (with no feedback). Findings indicate that the feedback and training to the parents intervention group, as well as parents’ risky driving events rate, were positively associated with the risk scores of the young drivers. Also, lower perception of accompanied driving as enabling a sense of relatedness with parents, and higher negative perceptions of this period, were related to higher risky driving scores among young drivers over a year after licensure. The results highlight once again the importance of parents’ behavior and relationships with their offspring as key concepts in moderating risky driving among young drivers. Practical implications for road safety are discussed.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ANB30 Standing Committee on Operator Education and Regulation.

Monograph Accession #:

01618707

Report/Paper Numbers:

17-01880

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Orit Taubman, Ben-Ari
Lotan, Tsippy
Prato, Carlo G

Pagination:

12p

Publication Date:

2017

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

References (34) ; Tables

Subject Areas:

Highways; Safety and Human Factors

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-01880

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 8 2016 10:39AM