The Driver Behaviour Questionnaire for older drivers: Do errors, violations and lapses change over time?

The aim of the current study was to examine how self-reported aberrant driving behaviours change across a three time-points in a group of older drivers. Two hundred and twenty-seven older drivers (males?=?69.6%) from the Candrive/Ozcandrive longitudinal study completed the Driving Behaviour Questionnaire (DBQ) each year across three time-points (i.e., Year 1, Year 2, Year 3). At the third time-point, older drivers ranged in age from 77 to 96 years (M = 81.74 years; SD?=?3.44 years). A longitudinal confirmatory factor analysis showed that a modified 21-item, 3-factor (errors, lapses and violations) DBQ was invariant across the time period, suggesting that the structure of the questionnaire was stable across each time-point. Further, multiple domain latent growth analysis on the resultant factors for errors, lapses and violations showed that the frequency of errors remained similar across the three-year period, while violations and lapses showed very marginal decreases in frequency. These changes were independent of the absolute number of these behaviours; Drivers with higher violations or lapses in Year one, showed similar decreases in frequency as those who self-reported lower frequencies of the behaviours. These results suggest that the DBQ is a reliable tool to measure older drivers’ self-reported aberrant driving behaviours, and that these behaviours do not show much change across time. Future research should validate the self-reported responses from the DBQ with more objective measures such as those collected through naturalistic driving study (NDS) methodology or on-road driving tasks.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2018.01.036
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001457518300423
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/00014575
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Koppel, S
  • Stephens, A N
  • Charlton, J L
  • Di Stefano, M
  • Darzins, P
  • Odell, M
  • Marshall, S
• Publication Date: 2018-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 171-178
• Serial:
  • Accident Analysis & Prevention
  • Volume: 113
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0001-4575
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00014575

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aged drivers; Automatic data collection systems; Driver errors; Driver performance; Questionnaires; Traffic violations
• Identifier Terms: Driver Behavior Questionnaire
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01667080
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 25 2018 11:14AM