Investigating driving instructors: The mediating roles of driving skills in the relationship between organizational safety strategies and driver behaviours |
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| Institution: | 1. Safety Research Unit, Department of Psychology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey;2. Department of Psychology, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey;3. Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway;1. Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety – Queensland (CARRS-Q), Australia;2. Adolescent Risk Research Unit (ARRU), Sunshine Coast Mind and Neuroscience – Thompson Institute, University of the Sunshine Coast (USC), Australia;3. Consortium of Adolescent Road Safety (cadrosa.org);1. Faculty of Health Sciences, Klaipeda University, Klaipeda, Lithuania;2. Faculty of Economics, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania;3. Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania;4. Faculty of Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey;1. Adolescent Risk Research Unit (ARRU), Sunshine Coast Mind and Neuroscience - Thompson Institute, University of the Sunshine Coast (USC), Australia;2. Sustainability Research Centre (SRC), Faculty of Arts, Business and Law, University of the Sunshine Coast (USC), Australia;3. School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Business and Law, University of the Sunshine Coast (USC), Australia;5. Transport and Road Safety Research, The University of New South Wales, Australia;1. Department of Psychology, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey;2. Safety Research Unit, Department of Psychology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey;3. Intelligent Transportation Systems Research Center, Wuhan University of Technology Wuchang District, Wuhan, Hubei, China |
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| Abstract: | The aim of the present study is to investigate the mediating roles of driving skills in relationship between organizational safety strategies and driver behaviours among driving instructors. Driving skills consist of perceptual-motor skills and safety skills. Driver behaviours are investigated under four factors: violations, errors, lapses, and positive driver behaviours. Participants were 132 driving instructors (108 male and 24 female). In order to measure organizational safety strategies, Organizational Safety Strategies Scale (OSSS) was developed for driving schools. Results of the principal component analyses yielded one-factor solution for OSSS. In order to test the indirect effects of organizational safety strategies on driver behaviours through driving skills, multiple mediation analyses were conducted by entering age and annual mileage as the control variables. As organizational safety strategies were stronger, driving instructors had higher levels of perceptual-motor skills, which resulted in higher violations. On the other hand, as organizational safety strategies were stronger, driving instructors had higher levels of safety skills, which resulted in less violations and lapses. It can be inferred that; organizational stronger safety strategies might have negative influences on road safety through higher perceptual-motor skills; whereas there can be positive influences on road safety through higher safety skills. In addition, both skills are related to organizational safety strategies. Hence, driving schools should consider the asymmetric relationship between perceptual-motor skills and safety skills while improving their safety strategies to decrease violations and lapses. Organizations might also develop interventions to balance the stated skills to increase road safety. |
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| Keywords: | Driving instructors Driving skills Driver behaviours Safety strategies |
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