Highlights Higher-order instruction critical in training and reducing new driver crash risks. Self-determination theory (SDT) recommends autonomy-supportive learning environment. SDT-based professional instruction encourages self-regulated safety orientation. Self-regulated safety orientation reduces self-reported risky driving behaviour.

    Abstract Adolescents’ risky driving behaviours contribute to their over-representation in road trauma. Higher-order driving instruction is suggested to reduce such behaviours. To sustain positive behaviours in the long-term, self-determination theory identifies self-regulation as fundamental. The current research explored associations between higher-order driving instruction, risky driving behaviours, and a self-regulated safety orientation. Learner drivers (n = 544), aged 16–19 years, responded to a 91-item survey. Self-regulated safety orientation was found to fully mediate the relationship between higher-order driving instruction and inattentive risky driving behaviours, and between anticipatory higher-order driving instruction and intentional risky driving behaviours. A partial mediation was found between self-regulatory higher-order instruction and intentional risky driving behaviours. These results support that higher-order driving instruction, delivered to develop a self-regulated safety orientation, has potential to reduce young novice drivers’ risky driving behaviours. Further research is recommended to triangulate these results through direct observation and longitudinal evaluation.


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    Title :

    Association between higher-order driving instruction and risky driving behaviours: Exploring the mediating effects of a self-regulated safety orientation



    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2019-07-10


    Size :

    9 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English






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