@article{ref1,
title="Personality and multiple dimensions of task-induced fatigue: a study of simulated driving",
journal="Personality and individual differences",
year="1998",
author="Matthews, Gerald and Desmond, Paula A.",
volume="25",
number="3",
pages="443-458",
abstract="This article reports the development of a multidimensional measure of subjective fatigue states, and its associations with personality in an experimentally-controlled context. In a study of simulated driving, 256 subjects completed a new 24-item fatigue scale as well as other subjective state measures, before and after performing a fatiguing drive. An item factor analysis identified four correlated dimensions: visual fatigue, muscular fatigue, boredom and malaise. The scales were sensitive to increased fatigue following the fatiguing drive, and showed a high degree of internal consistency. The fatigue scales correlated substantially with general state measures, such as mood and motivation. A factor analysis of fatigue and other state scales identified second-order factors of task disengagement (including boredom), physical fatigue (including the other three fatigue scales), and a distress factor. The fatigue scale was also correlated with the EPQ-R and with a measure of traits related specifically to driving, the Driving Behaviour Inventory (DBI), which includes a Fatigue Proneness scale. Bivariate and multivariate analyses showed that Fatigue Proneness was the strongest single predictor of task-induced fatigue symptoms, as predicted from an interactionist analysis of relationships between traits and states. However, the relationship between traits and states associated with fatigue was complex, and other EPQ-R and DBI traits, including neuroticism, were independently associated with fatigue.   <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0191-8869",
doi="10.1016/S0191-8869(98)00045-2",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0191-8869(98)00045-2"
}