Parenting style, young driver compliance and the imposition of additional driving restrictions within graduated driver licensing systems

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Bates, L
Somoray, K
Lennon, A
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2020
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Provisional (or intermediate) drivers do not always comply with graduated driver licensing restrictions and road laws. The aim of this study was to explore the effect of parenting style on young driver compliance with licensing restrictions. Two surveys, the first a sample of parents of provisionally licensed drivers (n = 101) from Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory (Australia), while the second, and separate sample, was of provisionally licensed drivers (n = 132) from Queensland. A series of regression analyses identified that parents who reported higher levels of control were more likely to feel responsible for their child’s driving and to have a child that complied with licensing restrictions. Parents who reported higher levels of support were more likely to offer their child practical assistance in order to help them to comply with licensing restrictions. Young drivers who reported that their parents had higher levels of control were more likely to indicate that they complied with restrictions. Given that parenting style appears to influence provisional driver compliance with licensing requirements, there may be an opportunity to develop interventions to enhance compliance.

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Accident Analysis and Prevention

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144

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© 2020 Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.

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Health services and systems

Public health

Criminology

Psychology

Graduated driver licensing

Intermediate driver

Novice driver

Parents

Provisional driver

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Bates, L; Somoray, K; Lennon, A, Parenting style, young driver compliance and the imposition of additional driving restrictions within graduated driver licensing systems, Accident Analysis and Prevention, 2020, 144, pp. 105619

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