Browsing by Subject "Road safety"

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    Attitudes Toward Safety Regulations questionnaire (ATSR) for professional drivers
    (Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad dde Murcia, 2026) Tàpia-Caballero, Patricia; Macip-Simó, Sergi; Boada-Cuerva, María; Serrano-Fernández, María José; Sin departamento asociado
    Background: The aims of this study were to adapt the Attitudes Toward Safety Regulations (ATSR) questionnaire for professional drivers (Douglas & Swartz, 2009) to Spanish and analyze the scale’s psychometric properties. Method: A version adapted to Spanish was administered to 507 participants, 91.2% of whom were men and 8.8% were women. Results: Confirmatory factor analysis (ESEM) was applied. The results were replicated with the same number of items and the resulting subscales showed good reliability. When we related the scores obtained on these subscales to various external correlates and other scales, they showed good concurrent and criterial validity. Conclusions: The Spanish version of the ATSR questionnaire, designed for all types of professional drivers from various sectors, is a reliable and valid instrument for assessing attitudes towards driving safety regulations. Future research could use the ATSR as a screening tool in combination with other instruments to select drivers who exhibit safe driving behaviors. This would result in fewer traffic collisions and fewer penalties for traffic violations.
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    On the long-run association between personality traits and road crashes: findings from the British cohort study
    (Elsevier, 2019-11-18) Martínez Gabaldón, Eduardo; Méndez, Ildefonso; Economía Aplicada
    Traffic crashes are the leading cause of death for those aged 15–29 years and the ninth cause of death worldwide. Personality traits play an important role in explaining traffic crashes. We use data from the British Cohort Study 1970 to analyse the effect of the respondent's personality traits at age 10 on the probability of having had at least one injurious traffic crash at age 30. Our results support the hypothesis on the long-run associations between personality traits in childhood and injurious road crashes in adulthood, but only for men. Specifically, a one standard deviation increase in the level of conscientiousness at age 10 would lower men's likelihood of having at least one injurious traffic crash by approximately 3 percentage points. The association found in this paper may suggest that improving personality traits through educational programs could lower traffic crashes and risky driving behaviours.