Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11851/3991
Title: Traffic climate and driver behaviors: The moderating role of driving skills in Turkey and China
Authors: Zihni, Yeşim Üzümcüoğlu
Özkan, Türker
Chaozhong, Wu
Zhang, Hui
Keywords: Traffic climate
Road safety
Driver behaviors
Driving skills
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Source: Üzümcüoğlu, Y., Özkan, T., Wu, C., & Zhang, H. (2020). Traffic climate and driver behaviors: The moderating role of driving skills in Turkey and China. Journal of safety research, 75, 87-98.
Abstract: Introduction: While road traffic accidents and fatalities are a worldwide problem, the rates of road traffic accidents and fatalities show differences among countries. Similarly, driver behaviors, traffic climate, and their relationships also show differences among countries. The aim of the current study is to investigate the moderating effect of driving skills on the relationship between traffic climate and driver behaviors by country. (Turkey and China). Method: There were 294 Turkish drivers and 292 Chinese drivers, and they completed the Traffic Climate Scale, the Driving Skills Inventory, and the Driver Behavior Questionnaire. The moderated moderation analyses were conducted with Hayes PROCESS tool on SPSS. Results: The results showed that safety skills moderated the relationship between internal requirements and violations both in Turkey and China. Safety skills also moderated the relationship between internal requirements and errors only in China and the relationship between functionality and violations in Turkey. Perceptual-motor skills moderated the relationships between external affective demands and errors, and also the relationship between internal requirements and positive driver behaviors in Turkey. It can be inferred that driving skills has different influences on traffic climate-driver behaviors relationship in different cultures and there might be cultural differences in the evaluation of drivers’ own driving skills. Practical Applications: Among driving skills, safety skills have a more critical role to increase road safety by decreasing number of violations. Interventions to increase safety skills of drivers might be promising for road safety.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11851/3991
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsr.2020.08.004
ISSN: 0022-4375
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