Abstract
The present study was conducted to determine the effects of driving stress on traffic accident risk. Specifically, the study verified whether a driver's speed desire frustration plays a control role in the relations between driving stress and traffic accident risk. As a result, a driver's speed desire frustration level played a control role in the relation between driving stress and traffic accident risk. This indicates that a driver's speed desire frustration level change driving stress sensitivities, thus changing the effects of selecting coping behavior types and causing differences in total traffic accident risk. The results show that the mere concentration on driving stress management cannot sufficiently lower the traffic accident risks caused by driving stress. This is because driving stress have indirect influences on traffic accident risk. Hence, it will be necessary to seek how to reduce driving stress and control coping behavior types in order to lower the traffic accidents risk by the stress.
Highlights
In the study of the relation between stress and coping with stress behaviors; or between behavioral problems and thoughts, the search for the third cause of change which alters the structural relations or plays adjustable functions among the present causes, becomes an important subject of the study
The correlation of observed variables was examined among the components of Driving Stress Scale (DSS), Driving Stress-Coping Behavior Scale (DS-CBS), Traffic Accident Risk Index (TARI), and Speed Desire Frustration Questionnaire (SDFQ)
This study was fulfilled in order to be able to know whether a driver’s speed desire frustration plays a controlling function in the mediator model, where driving stress influences traffic accident risks through coping behavioral patterns
Summary
In the study of the relation between stress and coping with stress behaviors; or between behavioral problems and thoughts, the search for the third cause of change which alters the structural relations or plays adjustable functions among the present causes, becomes an important subject of the study. Accidents encountered in traffic are caused by the mechanical manipulation that interlocks with lapses, mistakes and violations drivers commit towards traffic regulations. These are treated as industrial accidents as well as traffic accidents. Attributing human factors as the cause of the occurrences of traffic accidents have gradually been increased ever since. It has been reported in the Rumar’s study of 1985 that human factors are the primary causes of traffic accidents 95% in the United Kingdom and 94% in the United States
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