Disassa Alemu, Kebu Habtamu
Adama Science and Technology University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, P.B.Box, 1888, Adama, Ethiopia.
Heliyon. 2019 Jun 14;5(6):e01876. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e01876. eCollection 2019 Jun.
This study was designed to examine the influence of selected psychosocial factors (alcohol /substance use, driving anger, altruism, and normlessness) on risky driving behavior and accident involvement of drivers. A total of 343 freight transport and minibus drivers were made to fill the Amharic version of self-reporting scales of alcohol and/or substance use, driving anger, altruism, normlessness, risky driving behavior and accident involvement adapted from various sources. To test the proposed hypotheses, correlation, multiple regression and path analyses were conducted. Results of the study elucidated that selected psychosocial factors, particularly driving anger, normlessness, and alcohol/substance use significantly predicted variability in risky driving behavior. The study also revealed that risky driving behavior accounted for limited variability in accident involvement. Furthermore, risky driving behavior mediates the link between psychosocial factors and involvement in road traffic accidents. Implications of the findings have been discussed in terms of improving drivers' training curricula and enforcement of traffic laws.
本研究旨在探讨特定心理社会因素（酒精/物质使用、驾驶愤怒、利他主义和无规范状态）对驾驶员危险驾驶行为及事故参与情况的影响。共有343名货运和小型巴士司机填写了源自不同出处的阿姆哈拉语版酒精和/或物质使用、驾驶愤怒、利他主义、无规范状态、危险驾驶行为及事故参与情况的自我报告量表。为检验所提出的假设，进行了相关性分析、多元回归分析和路径分析。研究结果表明，特定心理社会因素，尤其是驾驶愤怒、无规范状态以及酒精/物质使用，显著预测了危险驾驶行为的变异性。该研究还显示，危险驾驶行为在事故参与情况中的变异性有限。此外，危险驾驶行为在心理社会因素与道路交通事故参与之间起中介作用。研究结果的影响已从改进驾驶员培训课程和交通法规执法方面进行了讨论。
