Citation

Warner HW, Özkan T, Lajunen TJ. Accid. Anal. Prev. 2010; 42(4): 1113-1117.

Affiliation

Safety Research Unit, Department of Psychology, Middle East Technical University, Turkey. henriettewallenwarner@hotmail.com

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.aap.2009.12.025

PMID

20441820

Abstract

The first aim of the present study was to examine the factor structure of the traffic locus of control (T-LOC) scale in a Swedish sample of drivers. The second aim was to examine if this scale can be used to predict drivers' speeding behaviour. A sample of Swedish car owners (N=223) completed a questionnaire including questions based on the traffic locus of control (T-LOC) scale as well as questions about their speeding behaviour. The results showed a five factor solution including own skills, own behaviour, other drivers, vehicle/environment and fate. Own behaviour and vehicle/environment could be used to predict drivers' speeding behaviour on roads with a 90 km/h speed limit while none of the variables included in the traffic locus of control (T-LOC) scale could be used to predict drivers' speeding behaviour on roads with a 50 km/h speed limit. On 90 km/h roads own behaviour was positively related to drivers' speeding behaviour while vehicle/environment was negatively related to their speeding behaviour.

Language: en