Citation

Tuokko H, Myers AM, Jouk A, Marshall S, Man-Son-Hing M, Porter MM, Bedard M, Gelinas I, Korner-Bitensky N, Mazer B, Naglie G, Rapoport M, Vrkljan B. Accid. Anal. Prev. 2013; 61: 267-271.

Affiliation

Centre on Aging, University of Victoria, PO Box 1700, STN CSC, Victoria, BC, V8W 2Y2 Canada. Electronic address: htuokko@uvic.ca.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.aap.2013.02.036

PMID

23522324

Abstract

The relations among driving-related psychosocial measures (e.g., driving comfort, attitudes toward driving) and measures of self-reported health were examined in the context of driver characteristics (i.e., age and gender) within the Canadian Driving Research Initiative for Vehicular Safety in the Elderly (Candrive II) baseline data, available for the cohort of 928 drivers, 70 years of age and older. Older members of the cohort had lower comfort scores and poorer perceptions of their driving abilities. Men reported significantly higher levels of driving comfort than women. When analyses including health were controlled for age and gender, significant relations with health status were evident for most of the psychosocial measures. These findings extend previous research and suggest that attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions about driving may be influenced by health status and act as mediators in the self-regulation process.

Language: en