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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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Exploration des capacités visuelles et attentionnelles des conducteurs âgés: Intérêts et techniques

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present connaissances acquises sur l'evolution, du fait du vieillissement, des capacites visuelles and attentionnelles des conducteurs.
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Comportements, personnalité, conduite des véhicules automobiles

TL;DR: A part d'un questionnaire portant sur des parametres routiers antecedents d'infractions d'accidents puissante du vehicule and de l'inventaire de temperament ent de Guilford Zimmermann (et dans l'etude de validation du questionnaire de conduite de Parenti).
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