Abstract
The present study aimed to adapt the Attitudes Toward Accompanied Driving Scale (ATADS) to a Chinese drivers sample and to examine its reliability and validity. Five hundred and seventy-two drivers aged 18 to 25 years old were asked to complete the ATADS and a validated Chinese version of the Multidimensional Driving Style Inventory. The factorial structure of the ATADS was examined using exploratory factor analysis (N = 259) and confirmatory factor analysis (N = 313). The validity of the scale was evaluated by examining the associations between the ATADS factors, demographic variables and driving styles. The results showed that both the findings of the EFA and CFA showed a five-factor structure of the ATADS, including tension, relatedness, avoidance, disapproval and anxiety. Second, significant gender differences were found in tension, relatedness, avoidance and anxiety. Third, tension, avoidance, disapproval and anxiety were moderately or weakly correlated with risky, anxious, angry and careful driving styles. Moreover, the number of traffic accidents after the accompanying phase was positively correlated with disapproval and avoidance. The findings supported the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the ATADS and highlighted the adverse effects of young drivers’ negative attitudes toward accompanied driving on their driving styles.
Highlights
Young novice drivers are found to have the highest crash risk among all drivers
In China, the Nanjing Traffic Management Department has analyzed big data on traffic accidents caused by young novice drivers and has found that the accident rate of young novice drivers with less than one year of driving experience is more than 4 times that of drivers with over 10 years of experience [3]
Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Attitudes Toward Accompanied Driving Scale accounted for traffic accidents on the road, most studies in transport psychology focus on young drivers’ personality characteristics [4,5]
Summary
Young novice drivers are found to have the highest crash risk among all drivers Their crash rate is highest during the first month of driving after they obtain their driving license, after which it declines rapidly for approximately six months, and it declines more slowly in the following two years [1,2]. Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Attitudes Toward Accompanied Driving Scale accounted for traffic accidents on the road, most studies in transport psychology focus on young drivers’ personality characteristics [4,5]. Studies have found that young drivers’ attitudes toward accompanied driving play important roles in their driving safety [6,7]. Due to lack of instruments in assessing young drivers’ attitudes towards accompanied driving in China, the present study aimed to adapt the ATADS to Chinese language and examine its reliability and validity
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