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Citation

Yilmaz V, Celik HE. Transp. Res. F Traffic Psychol. Behav. 2008; 11(4): 233-241.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.trf.2007.10.003

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

There exist a good many scientific studies into risk-taking and risky behavior displayed by reckless drivers; however, there are only a few studies into attitudes towards the traffic displayed by candidate drivers. The present study aims to investigate the dimensionality of candidate attitudes' drivers. Data were collected from questionnaire completed by 258 candidate drivers, and were divided into two sets. The first data was used to explore the underlying factor structure and five latent factors were derived; Factor A Attitude towards drinking and driving; Factor P positive attitude toward traffic; Factor S speeding; Factor T traffic flow vs. rule obedience; and Factor R risky candidate driver's attitude. The second data set was used to confirm this factorial structure using confirmatory factor analysis. The fit indices showed that the model fitted the data well.

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