Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of health, Isfahan University of medical sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of health, Tehran University of medical sciences, Tehran, Iran.
BMC Psychol. 2020 Jul 6;8(1):70. doi: 10.1186/s40359-020-00440-2.
Fatigue can affect the behavior of drivers. While the driver must be able to respond and cope appropriately to the critical situations, which is known as the ability to cope with a crisis. It is likely that the fatigue can change the people's coping style and thereby increase the chance of the crashes. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the effects of fatigue on the coping behavior of international truck drivers.
This study was conducted on 239 of international truck drivers employed in Iran. The Endler and Parker coping strategies questionnaire (CISS) and Persian version of the Fatigue Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory (MFI) were used to evaluate the coping styles of the drivers and the drivers' fatigue, respectively.
The mean values of the total fatigue before and after traveling were 36.77 and 76.13, respectively. The mean values of coping styles of the problem-oriented, emotion-oriented, and avoidance before traveling were 53.66, 40.91, and 38.17, respectively, and those after traveling were 45.59, 51.18, and 36.45, respectively. The chi-square test demonstrated that there was a significant difference in the coping style of drivers before and after the trip (P < 0.001), and the percent of individuals with emotion-oriented increased.
In general, the results showed that fatigue due to traveling could change the coping styles of subjects from problem-oriented to emotion-oriented and avoidance. This can increase the statistics of driving accidents.
疲劳会影响驾驶员的行为。驾驶员必须能够对关键情况做出反应并做出适当的应对，这被称为应对危机的能力。疲劳可能会改变人们的应对方式，从而增加事故发生的几率。因此，本研究旨在探讨疲劳对国际卡车司机应对行为的影响。
本研究对伊朗 239 名国际卡车司机进行了研究。采用 Endler 和 Parker 应对策略问卷（CISS）和波斯语版疲劳多维疲劳量表（MFI）分别评估驾驶员的应对方式和驾驶员的疲劳情况。
行驶前后的总疲劳平均值分别为 36.77 和 76.13。行驶前的问题导向、情绪导向和回避应对方式的平均值分别为 53.66、40.91 和 38.17，行驶后的平均值分别为 45.59、51.18 和 36.45。卡方检验表明，驾驶员在行驶前后的应对方式存在显著差异（P<0.001），情绪导向的人数百分比增加。
总的来说，结果表明，由于行驶引起的疲劳可能会使受试者的应对方式从问题导向转变为情绪导向和回避，这可能会增加驾驶事故的统计数据。
