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  • The influence of age-related health difficulties and attitudes toward driving on driving self-regulation in the baby boomer and older adult generations

    Author(s)
    Conlon, Elizabeth G
    Rahaley, Nicole
    Davis, Jessica
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Conlon, Elizabeth G.
    Year published
    2017
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    Our study aimed to determine how age- and disease-related difficulties were associated with attitudes and beliefs about driving self-regulation in men and women in the baby boomer and older generations. Three hundred and ninety-nine men (n = 204) and women (n = 195) aged between 48 and 91 years participated in a cross-sectional study of Australian drivers. Demographic characteristics and measures of driving confidence, driving difficulty and driving self-regulation; perceptions of visual, physical and cognitive capacity; and attitudes and beliefs about driving were obtained. Driving self-regulation in men and women was ...
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    Our study aimed to determine how age- and disease-related difficulties were associated with attitudes and beliefs about driving self-regulation in men and women in the baby boomer and older generations. Three hundred and ninety-nine men (n = 204) and women (n = 195) aged between 48 and 91 years participated in a cross-sectional study of Australian drivers. Demographic characteristics and measures of driving confidence, driving difficulty and driving self-regulation; perceptions of visual, physical and cognitive capacity; and attitudes and beliefs about driving were obtained. Driving self-regulation in men and women was explained by different mechanisms. For men, self-report of visual and cognitive difficulties and poor driving confidence predicted driving self-regulation. For women, negative attitudes toward driving mediated the associations found between health-related difficulties and driving self-regulation. Barriers to driving self-regulation were not associated with the driving self-regulatory practices of men or women. Regardless of generation, women reported poorer driving confidence, greater driving difficulty and more driving self-regulation than men. We concluded that age- and disease-related difficulties are related to increasing driving self-regulation in mature men and women. These results indicate that different pathways are needed in models of driving self-regulation for men and women regardless of generational cohort.
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    Journal Title
    Accident Analysis and Prevention
    Volume
    102
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2017.02.010
    Subject
    Cognitive and computational psychology
    Health services and systems
    Public health
    Injury prevention
    Psychology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/340660
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