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Title:

Distracted Driving: How Individual Differences Influence Youth Texting While Driving Behavior

Accession Number:

01587515

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Texting while driving (TWD) is a growing problem among teenage drivers. Researchers at the Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New Hyde Park, NY have found that the number of teenager deaths caused by texting and driving has exceeded the number of teenager deaths resulting from drunk driving. In order to help improve this statistic, it is necessary that we determine which methods are most effective at deterring TWD behaviors for this age group. This objective of this study was to identify key components that affect teenager TWD law compliance by developing and administering a survey in order to identify TWD law compliance profiles of teenagers. Such profiles may be used to create unique TWD law compliance training protocols designed to meet the unique needs of specific teenager profiles. In this study, we investigated the role of dispositional factors such as the “Big Five” personality types and situational factors such as threats, sanctions, self-efficacy, response efficacy, and response cost which may be associated with teenagers’ motivation to adopt safety behaviors and to comply with texting while driving regulations. The method included the administration of a 93-item Likert-scale survey online to drivers age 15 through 21. The survey consisted of a set of demographic questions, a Big Five personality assessment, and items adopted from Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) and General Deterrence Theory (GDT). The results of the study indicate that elements of each of the three theories (i.e., Big Five, PMT, and GDT) have an impact on teenager texting while driving behavior.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AND10 Standing Committee on Vehicle User Characteristics.

Monograph Accession #:

01584066

Report/Paper Numbers:

16-1192

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

McBride, Maranda
Carter, Lemuria

Pagination:

15p

Publication Date:

2016

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2016-1-10 to 2016-1-14
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Web

Features:

Figures; References (34) ; Tables

Subject Areas:

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

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2016 Paper #16-1192

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 12 2016 4:32PM