ADOLESCENT CRASHES AND OFFENSES BY GENDER: IMPLICATIONS FOR PREVENTION
This study examines relationships of self-reported demographic and substance abuse measures with driving behavior (crashes and offenses on driving records). Young-driver crashes can result from inexperience, as well as risk-taking behavior. Offenses, however, more likely result from behavior under a driver's control. A school-based substance abuse prevention evaluation provided the chance to add driving behavior to other measures being studied. Adolescent problem behavior theory suggests that substance abuse and high-risk driving are in the same constellation of behaviors. This study provides a test of that theory, as well as results that offer implications for preventing adolescent high-risk driving behavior. (A) For the covering abstract see IRRD 893732.
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CENTRE D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES EN MEDECINE DU TRAFIC (CERMT)
BP 132
ANNECY CEDEX, France 74004 -
Authors:
- Shope, J T
- Waller, P F
- Lang, S W
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- Publication Date: 1997
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: References;
- Pagination: p. 449-56
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Adolescents; Attitudes; Behavior; Blood alcohol levels; Conferences; Drivers; Drugs; Recently qualified drivers
- ITRD Terms: 1748: Adolescent; 2267: Attitude (psychol); 9001: Behaviour; 1553: Blood alcohol content; 8525: Conference; 1772: Driver; 2242: Drugs; 1782: Recently qualified driver
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Safety and Human Factors; Society;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00746147
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
- ISBN: 2-9511746-0-8
- Files: ITRD
- Created Date: Mar 24 1998 12:00AM