DATS (Development and Advising in Traffic Safety) Research Group, INTRAS (Research Institute on Traffic and Road Safety), University of Valencia, 46022 Valencia, Spain.
Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment, Faculty of Psychology, University of Valencia, 46010 Valencia, Spain.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Mar 31;18(7):3611. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18073611.
Recent evidence suggests that driving behavior and traffic safety outcomes of parents may be influenced by the extent to which they receive information and education on road safety, as well as the fact of driving with their children on board, which may increase their risk perception. However, there are no studies specifically addressing the case of crashes suffered while driving with children. Hence, this study aimed to describe the relationship between road safety education-related variables and parents' traffic safety outcomes while driving with children on board. For this cross-sectional study, data was retrieved from a sample composed of 165 Spanish parents-all of them licensed drivers-with a mean age of 45.3 years. Through binary logistic regression (logit) analysis, it was found that factors such as gender, having received road safety education (RSE), and having been sanctioned for the performance of risky driving behavior contribute to modulating the likelihood of suffering crashes while driving with children on board. Gender differences showed a riskier status for male parents. In this study, a set of risk factors explaining the involvement in traffic crashes when driving with children as passengers was identified among parents: gender, traffic sanctions, valuation, and exposure to road safety campaigns. Also, substantial limitations in the self-reported degree of received RSE were found, especially considering that risky driving behavior and traffic crash rates with children on board still have a high prevalence among parents.
最近的证据表明，父母的驾驶行为和交通安全结果可能受到他们接受道路安全信息和教育的程度以及与孩子一起开车的事实的影响，这可能会增加他们的风险感知。然而，目前还没有专门针对与孩子一起开车时发生事故的情况进行研究。因此，本研究旨在描述与道路安全教育相关的变量与父母在与孩子一起开车时的交通安全结果之间的关系。这项横断面研究的数据来自一个由 165 名西班牙父母组成的样本，他们都是有执照的司机，平均年龄为 45.3 岁。通过二元逻辑回归（logit）分析，发现性别、接受道路安全教育（RSE）以及因危险驾驶行为而受到处罚等因素有助于调节与孩子一起开车时发生事故的可能性。性别差异显示出男性父母的风险更高。在这项研究中，确定了一组在与儿童作为乘客一起驾驶时导致交通事故的风险因素：性别、交通制裁、评估以及道路安全宣传活动的参与。此外，还发现父母报告的接受 RSE 程度存在很大的局限性，尤其是考虑到与孩子一起开车时的危险驾驶行为和交通事故发生率仍然很高。
