Citation

de Winter JCF, Dodou D, Stanton NA. Ergonomics 2015; 58(10): 1745-1769.

Affiliation

Department of BioMechanical Engineering , Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering, Delft University of Technology , Delft , The Netherlands.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/00140139.2015.1030460

PMID

25777252

Abstract

This article synthesizes the latest information on the relationship between the Driver Behaviour Questionnaire (DBQ) and accidents. We show by means of computer simulation that correlations with accidents are necessarily small, because accidents are rare events. An updated meta-analysis on the zero-order correlations between the DBQ and self-reported accidents yielded an overall r of.13 (fixed-effect and random-effects models) for violations (57,480 participants; 67 samples) and.09 (fixed-effect and random-effects models) for errors (66,028 participants; 56 samples). An analysis of a previously published DBQ dataset (975 participants) showed that by aggregating across four measurement occasions, the correlation coefficient with self-reported accidents increased from.14 to.24 for violations and from.11 to.19 for errors. Our meta-analysis also showed that DBQ violations (r = .24; 6,353 participants; 20 samples) but not DBQ errors (r = - .08; 1,086 participants; 16 samples) correlated with recorded vehicle speed.

Language: en