Department of Management & Humanities, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Seri Iskandar 32610, Perak, Malaysia.
UniSA STEM, Scarce Resources and Circular Economy (ScaRCE), University of South Australia, Adelaide 5001, Australia.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Jun 23;18(13):6752. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18136752.
Driving fatigue is a serious issue for the transportation sector, decreasing the driver's performance and increasing accident risk. This study aims to investigate how fatigue mediates the relationship between the nature of work factors and driving performance. The approach included a review of the previous studies to select the dimensional items for the data collection instrument. A pilot test to identify potential modification to the questionnaire was conducted, then structural equation modelling (SEM) was performed on a stratified sample of 307 drivers, to test the suggested hypotheses. Based on the results, five hypotheses have indirect relationships, four of which have a significant effect. Besides, the results show that driving fatigue partially mediates the relationship between the work schedule and driving performance and fully mediates in the relationship between work activities and driving performance. The nature of work and human factors is the most common reason related to road accidents. Therefore, the emphasis on driving performance and fatigue factors would thereby lead to preventing fatal crashes and life loss.
驾驶疲劳是交通运输行业的一个严重问题，它会降低驾驶员的表现并增加事故风险。本研究旨在调查疲劳是如何调节工作因素的性质与驾驶表现之间的关系。该方法包括回顾先前的研究，以选择数据收集工具的维度项目。然后对 307 名驾驶员进行了试点测试，以确定问卷的潜在修改，然后对分层样本进行结构方程建模（SEM），以检验建议的假设。根据结果，有五个假设存在间接关系，其中四个具有显著影响。此外，结果表明，驾驶疲劳部分调节了工作时间表与驾驶表现之间的关系，并且完全调节了工作活动与驾驶表现之间的关系。工作性质和人为因素是与道路事故最常见的相关原因。因此，强调驾驶表现和疲劳因素将有助于防止致命事故和生命损失。
