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Can the traffic locus of control (T-LOC) scale be successfully used to predict Swedish drivers' speeding behaviour?
Date
2010-07-01
Author
WARNER, Henriette Wallen
Özkan, Türker
Lajunen, Timo
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The first aim of the present study was to examine the factor structure of the traffic locus of control (T-LOC) scale in a Swedish sample of drivers. The second aim was to examine if this scale can be used to predict drivers' speeding behaviour. A sample of Swedish car owners (N = 223) completed a questionnaire including questions based on the traffic locus of control (T-LOC) scale as well as questions about their speeding behaviour. The results showed a five factor solution including own skills, own behaviour, other drivers, vehicle/environment and fate. Own behaviour and vehicle/environment could be used to predict drivers' speeding behaviour on roads with a 90 km/h speed limit while none of the variables included in the traffic locus of control (T-LOC) scale could be used to predict drivers' speeding behaviour on roads with a 50 km/h speed limit. On 90 km/h roads own behaviour was positively related to drivers' speeding behaviour while vehicle/environment was negatively related to their speeding behaviour.
Subject Keywords
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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Law
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Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
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Human Factors and Ergonomics
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General Medicine
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/44732
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ACCIDENT ANALYSIS AND PREVENTION
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2009.12.025
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H. W. WARNER, T. Özkan, and T. Lajunen, “Can the traffic locus of control (T-LOC) scale be successfully used to predict Swedish drivers’ speeding behaviour?,”
ACCIDENT ANALYSIS AND PREVENTION
, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 1113–1117, 2010, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/44732.