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Psychological risk factors for road safety

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In this article, a meta-analytic study examines the latest psychological research focusing on road safety on the four strategic directions proposed by domain practitioners: 1. personality characteristics in young drivers, 2. ageing population and road traffic, 3. relationship between driver personality and accident producing and 4. national profiles of drivers.
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This article is published in Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences.The article was published on 2012-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 8 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Personality.

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Cognitive and personality determinants of safe driving performance in professional drivers

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a modern theoretical framework to assess which psychometric tests are still able to predict safe driving performance in today's professional drivers under new circumstances and found that logical reasoning showed significant effects.
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Psychosocial risk assessment by midwives during antenatal care: a focus on psychosocial support

TL;DR: The intention of this study was to establish the extent of psychosocial risk assessment for pregnant women during antenatal care, with a focus on the psychos social support, through combining quantitative and qualitative research techniques and approaches.
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Effects of psychological inoculation on indirect road hostility and simulated driving

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of psychological inoculation (PI), a cognitive method that challenges and modifies cognitive distortions and teaches social resistance skills, on road hostility tendencies, using an indirect measure (Studies 1 and 2), and on simulated driving (Study 3).
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Impact of Elderly Road Users Characteristics at Intersection

TL;DR: In this paper, a study of 200 elderly drivers, 100 cyclists and 55 pedestrian samples were interviewed using structured questionnaire and samples were weighted to remove bias using Delphi method according to gender and age, which revealed the following statistically significant effect on elderly: (i) 60+ drivers faces decrease in physical strength such as steering, braking, looking aside/backside.
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Prediction Method of Driver’s Propensity Adapted to Driver’s Dynamic Feature Extraction of Affection

TL;DR: Results show that this method is better than the traditional psychology test, and it provides a basis for further studying dynamic characteristics of driver's affection.
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Âge des conducteurs de voiture et accidents de la route: Quel risque pour les seniors ?

TL;DR: In this paper, the specificities des conducteurs âges en termes de mobilite, d'accidents and de risque routier, a travers une approche quantitative.
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Driver personality characteristics related to self-reported accident involvement and mobile phone use while driving

Yi-Lang Chen
- 01 Oct 2007 - 
TL;DR: A causal model was developed in this article to clarify the effect of mobile phone use on driving safety, and a series of questionnaires were developed, and 194 car drivers were interviewed based on these questionnaires.
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Les erreurs des conducteurs âgés

TL;DR: Van Elslande et al. as discussed by the authors presented an analysis comparative des defaillances fonctionnelles (ou erreurs), auxquelles ces differents conducteurs ont ete confrontes, des elements explicatifs de ces defaaillances and des contextes dans lesquelless elles interviennent.
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L'erreur humaine dans les scenarios d'accident : cause ou consequence

TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptualisation des erreurs en termes de defaillances fonctionnelles permet notamment de souligner que ce sont souvent les memes processus qui, habituellement, permettrent a loperateur de s'ajuster aux difficultes qu'il rencontre and qui peuvent, sous certaines conditions, amener the production d'une erreur.
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Mise en place d’un outil d’évaluation des déficits attentionnels affectant les capacités de conduite au cours du vieillissement normal et pathologique: L’étude SÉROVIE

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present, dans une premiere partie, le probleme du lien entre les troubles attentionnels and le risque d’accident de la circulation chez les personnes presentant une pathologie dementielle and plus particulierement debutant une maladie d Alzheimer, and presente les objectifs and la methodologie de l’etude SEROVIE (Securite routiere et vieillissement) dont les resultats sont en cours d'analyse
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