Driving and riding avoidance following motor vehicle crashes in a non-clinical sample: psychometric properties of a new measure

What does the Driving and Riding Avoidance Scale (DRAS) measure?

“…As described above, the DRAS (Stewart & St. Peter, 2004) assesses avoidance behaviour for various driving and riding situations. The measure consists of 20 situations which are rated for frequency of avoidance over the past week on a 4-point Likert scale from 0 (avoid rarely or none of the time) to 3 (avoid most or all of the time).…”

“…There are subscale scores for general avoidance (items 1-3, 12, 18-20), avoidance of traffic and busy roads (items 5-10, 15), avoidance of weather or darkness (items 11-14, 17), and riding avoidance (items 4, 13-16). As noted earlier, the DRAS was developed and its psychometric properties investigated in a series of studies using different samples of undergraduate students who were crash survivors (Stewart & St. Peter, 2004).…”

“…The least avoided situation was riding in a car after dark. Item scores were not provided by Stewart and St. Peter (2004), although total and subscale scores were and therefore could be compared, as shown in Table 2. Using five one-sample t tests, the present student sample obtained significantly higher scores on the total DRAS and all subscale scores except for the weather avoidance subscale than Stewart and St. Peter's sample of students who were MVC survivors.…”

Advancing simulation-based driver training

“…Variants of the DBQ have been widely employed in numerous other studies (Åberg & Rimmö, 1998;Blockey & Hartley, 1995;Lajunen et al, 2004). EFA has also been applied for studying phenomena such as decision-making style and driving style (e.g., French et al, 1993), driver aggression and anger (Hauber, 1980;Iversen & Rundmo 2002, driver stress (Gulian et al, 1989), driver fatigue (Matthews & Desmond, 1997), perceptual motor skills and safety skills , skills and safetymotives (Lajunen & Summala, 1995), problem driving (Hartos et al, 2000), driver vengeance (Wiesenthal et al, 2000), driver emotion (Mesken, 2006), avoidance of driving (Stewart & St. Peter, 2004), and attitudes and habits towards speeding (De Pelsmacker & Janssens, 2005). The majority of EFA studies appear to be primarily based on self-reports of driving without incorporating objective driving performance.…”

Psychometric evidence of the Brazilian version of Driving Cognitions Questionnaire (DCQ)

“…Unlike other instruments that are focused on behavior, such as the Inquiry behavior [8] and the Driving and Riding Scale Prevention [9], the DCQ focuses on cognition and, with this, can provide relevant information about driving fears.…”