Do Alcohol Warning Labels Influence Men's and Women's Attempts to Deter Others from Driving When Intoxicated?

This article describes how research on the federally mandated alcohol warning label has found mixed results. Some findings are consistent with a modest influence on precautionary behaviors to reduce drinkers' self-reported drunk driving. The authors hypothesized that warnings would also influence the likelihood of intervening to deter others' driving after drinking. Using data from 1,376 adult drinkers in a United States (U.S.) national survey, a conceptual model reflecting the effects of exposure to the label's drunk driving message on taking actions to avert another's driving under the influence was tested in a structural equation modeling framework. Structural models with drinking and handling of alcoholic beverages potentially affecting both message recall and intervening, the predicted relationships were found between message recall and actions to deter another's drinking driving in both men and women. The finding suggests that an important preventive effect of the alcohol warning label may be to legitimate collateral attempts to avert another's drunk driving.

• Record URL:
  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hfm.20239/abstract
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• Authors:
  • Tam, Tammy W
  • Greenfield, Thomas K
• Publication Date: 2010

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 538-546
• Serial:
  • Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing
  • Volume: 20
  • Issue Number: 6
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 1090-8471

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alcohol use; Drunk driving; Gender; Human factors in crashes; Policy making; Structural equation modeling; Traffic safety
• Uncontrolled Terms: Self-reporting; Warning labels
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01342448
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 23 2011 9:06AM