The driver behaviour questionnaire in South-East Europe countries: Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia

Abstract

Using data from three samples and more than 1000 participants, this study examined the psychometric properties of the Driver Behaviour Questionnaire (DBQ) in three countries from South-East Europe. Differences in driving behaviour between countries were also investigated.Exploratory factor analysis results supported the distinction between errors and violations in all three countries. Furthermore, the positive associations of both errors and violations with selfreported traffic accidents were also consistent in all three samples. In terms of differencesin driving behaviour, Romanian drivers scored higher on many error and violation items. Also, speeding violations were the most common violations in all three countries. Overall, our results provide further support for using the DBQ to measure aberrant (i.e. errors and violations) driver behaviour.

Investigating on-road crash risk and traffic offences in Vietnam using the motorcycle rider behaviour questionnaire (MRBQ)

“…Since we are correcting for gender, at least the main effects are taken into account, the co-occurrence between gender and other explanatory factors may be neglected, given that the variance inflation factors were all relatively close to 1. Given this study's higher percentage of females, the overall incidence of involvement in accidents is lower than expected, as males are more closely linked to motorcycle crashes (Al-Balbissi, 2003;Stanojević et al, 2018;Vlahogianni et al, 2012). In Vietnam, males participated more frequently in traffic accidents than females, and especially, men were expected to have 83.3% more than women for the annual number of penalized traffic violations (Table 7).…”

Peer Review #1 of "Network models of driver behavior (v0.2)"

“…This is evidenced by 1) Different factor structures being obtained for the same version of the instrument. For instance, the often-used 27-item questionnaire is thought to reflect two 17,18 , three 19 or four 20 different psychological processes, with exploratory analyses sometimes indicating even more latent variables 21 ;…”

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“…This is evidenced by Different factor structures being obtained for the same version of the instrument. For instance, the often-used 27-item questionnaire is thought to reflect two (De Winter, 2013; De Winter & Dodou, 2010), three (Parker et al, 1995) or four (Rowe et al, 2015) different psychological processes, with exploratory analyses sometimes indicating even more latent variables (Stanojević et al, 2018);Typically high cross-loadings of items on factors (Mattsson, 2012; Mattsson et al, 2015);Complex factor structures needed to adequately fit the data, either by specifying second-order factors (Lajunen, Parker & Summala, 2004) or a general factor (Stanojević et al, 2018) andFailures of the test of measurement equivalence across certain subgroups (Stephens & Fitzharris, 2016; Mattsson, 2012; Mattsson et al, 2015). …”

“…Different factor structures being obtained for the same version of the instrument. For instance, the often-used 27-item questionnaire is thought to reflect two (De Winter, 2013; De Winter & Dodou, 2010), three (Parker et al, 1995) or four (Rowe et al, 2015) different psychological processes, with exploratory analyses sometimes indicating even more latent variables (Stanojević et al, 2018);…”