Traffic climate and driver behaviors: The moderating role of driving skills in Turkey and China

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2020-01-01

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Üzümcüoğlu, Yeşim
Özkan, Türker
Wu, Chaozhong
Zhang, Hui

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© 2020 National Safety Council and Elsevier LtdIntroduction: 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.

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Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/57161

Journal

Journal of Safety Research

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsr.2020.08.004

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Department of Psychology, Article

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Y. Üzümcüoğlu, T. Özkan, C. Wu, and H. Zhang, “Traffic climate and driver behaviors: The moderating role of driving skills in Turkey and China,” Journal of Safety Research, pp. 0–0, 2020, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/57161.