Citation

af Wåhlberg AE. J. Saf. Res. 2010; 41(4): 381-383.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, P. O. Box 1225, 751 42 Uppsala, Sweden.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, U.S. National Safety Council, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jsr.2010.05.004

PMID

20846555

Abstract

PROBLEM: Studies on individual differences in traffic safety report differently on their methodologies, and use different statistics, and these are therefore difficult to compare and meta-analyze. METHOD: Based upon a previous, extensive review and meta-analysis of the traffic safety literature, several recommendations are made about what features of the methodology of studies on individual differences (including evaluations) in safety need to be reported to facilitate interpretation and meta-analysis. Similarly, some basic types of statistical values are recommended. IMPACT ON INDUSTRY: The accumulation of knowledge about individual differences in traffic safety would be facilitated if scientific authors and journals adhered to these guidelines.

Language: en