The Effect of Boredom Proneness, Impulsiveness and Sensation Seeking to Driver Speeding Behavior

Leksmono Suryo Putranto,Anissa Noor Tajudin,Sunu Bagaskara

doi:10.26552/com.c.2022.2.f27-f35

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https://doi.org/10.26552/com.c.2022.2.f27-f35

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Speeding or driving above the speed limit might be conducted due to various reasons. This paper is intended to investigate whether there are certain underlying behaviors that trigger speeding in the various driving environment. Authors were investigating the effect of boredom proneness, impulsiveness and sensation seeking on driver speeding behaviors. They received 676 responses to our distributed online questionnaires mainly from Lampung, East Java, East Borneo, North Celebes and North Moluccas. A Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was conducted for analysis. The result implies that the drivers with high sensation seeking, low boredom proneness and high impulsiveness tend to drive at high speed.

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The SEM analysis was used to test the fitness of the structural model with the obtained data
The measurement model was tested based on the loading factors of each item towards tested latent constructs and reliability coefficient
The results show that all the tested items have significant loading factors towards each latent construct (p < 0.01), except for items 6 and 11 on the speed option variable and item 5 on the impulsiveness

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There are various types of traffic violations, like the violations are conducted to get convenience or to gain a benefit [1]. Red-light running, or forcing other road users to give way when in a rush or under time pressure, or running in the opposite direction to get a shortcut, or driving above the speed limit (assuming the speed limit is too low). A study by Moraldi et al [2] observes rural road links in 3 different speed limits, i.e., less than 50 km/h, 50 to 100 km/h and above 100 km/h. A driver is more likely to exceed the speed limit in a road link with the lowest speed limit. The usual prototype of accident victims mostly found is young males [3]. Young males were more susceptible to speeding caused by the pressure from their peers [5]. Males were more likely to conduct risky behavior [6-7], both emotional and ordinary violations.

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