This paper draws on data gathered during a larger study of driving behaviour to explore possible connections between stress, offending against the traffic laws, and accicdent rates, and gives particular attention to comparisons between male and female drivers. Data were gathered from 422 drivers by a postal questionnaire, and further measures of stress were obtained during semi-structured interviews with a specially selected subset of 66 of them. Analyses of variance investigated links between offending rates, accident history, and up to seven measures of stress, taking age and gender into account. In the results accident history, although positively related to offending, played little parts in links involving stress variables. The principal findings were that (a) stress, both on and off the road, was positively associated with offending among both male and female drivers, and (b) although females overall offended less than males, females experience more stress than male drivers whatever their level of offending. One possible interpretation of these results is suggested by the feminist literature, which could account for both the higher levels of stress and lower level of offending found among women drivers. However, there is unlikely to be a clear-cut gender divide in offending-stress relationships, and some small groups of female drivers behaved like male ones. It is suggested that people's driving reflects their lifestyles, and that women's driving patterns of offending and stress will resemble those of male drivers to the extent that their lives and concerns are similar to men's. This proposition warrants further research.
Road traffic offending, stress, age, and accident history among male and female drivers
Verletzung der Straßenverkehrsregeln, Streß, Alter und Unfallhergang bei männlichen und weiblichen Fahrern
Ergonomics ; 39 , 5 ; 757-780
1996
24 Seiten, 16 Tabellen, 32 Quellen
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English
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