Abstract
Main causes of accident is due to driver itself that is influenced by their bad attitude while driving. Human attitude is closely related to the human psychology. Apart from that, spiritual aspect also influence human attitude. Hence, this study carried out to improve driver safety using a new approach through psychology and spiritual factors. Objectives of this study are to identify then analyze factors of psychological and spiritual that contribute towards safety driving. A self-administered questionnaire were distributed among 256 respondents from various type of background. An analysis descriptive statistics show demographic and experience of respondents. Chi-square analysis showed only education level and traffic summon are significant to safety driving. Furthermore, correlation analysis shows psychological factors has strong linear relationship on attitude of drivers towards safety driving while spiritual factor, the perception of the spiritual and practices, both have a strong relationship to safety driving. Regression analysis demonstrates boths psychological and spiritual factors have strong evidence and significant relationship with safety driving. Thus, it can be identified that spiritual psychological factors encourage drivers to drive more safely and reduce road accidents. Therefore, this study propose useful guidelines to related agencies in order to enhance safety among drivers to be able drive safely on the road.
Highlights
Accidents problem occurred in Malaysia is one of the most important agenda seriously discussed and various methods were carried out to overcome this problem
Most of the respondents are by the age of 20 – 25 years old with a total of 118 (46%) respondent and followed by group age of 30 years old and above with a total of 67(26%) respondents
From 256 respondent, 71 respondents works in private sector
Summary
Accidents problem occurred in Malaysia is one of the most important agenda seriously discussed and various methods were carried out to overcome this problem. Accidents that occurred resulted loss of valuable lives, injury and property [1]. Transport system is divided into three main components which are physical environment, vehicles and road users. There have been many improvements that have been carried out to reduce accidents, especially on the physical environment and the vehicle but less improvement in road users itself. In accordance with population growth, the demand for vehicle use and transportation are increased and it was undoubtedly resulting more accidents. Behavior of road users is one of the factors contributing majorly in road accidents involving death or injury
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