TY - CHAP

T1 - Affective States and Driving Behavior of Novice and Young Drivers

AU - Oehl, Michael

AU - Höger, Rainer

N1 - Conference code: 5

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - Although general car safety has increased considerably and at the same time accident numbers have decreasedremarkably on average in the European Union during the last years, the percentage of novice and young car driversinvolved in heavy car accidents is still remaining dramatically high, e.g., in Germany more than twice as highcompared to older and more experienced drivers based on their proportion of the driving population. Trafficpsychological research shows that maladjusted driving behavior caused by affective states is a main contributor totraffic accidents. Therefore, our current experimental study analyzes this influence of affective states on drivingperformance with regard to novice and young drivers. In an experimental scenario affective states (positive vs.negative valence) were induced in participants and subjects were then asked to drive predefined routes in a drivingsimulator. Results indicated that drivers drove significantly faster in a positive affective state compared with driversin a negative affective state. This effect was pronounced by trend for novice drivers.

AB - Although general car safety has increased considerably and at the same time accident numbers have decreasedremarkably on average in the European Union during the last years, the percentage of novice and young car driversinvolved in heavy car accidents is still remaining dramatically high, e.g., in Germany more than twice as highcompared to older and more experienced drivers based on their proportion of the driving population. Trafficpsychological research shows that maladjusted driving behavior caused by affective states is a main contributor totraffic accidents. Therefore, our current experimental study analyzes this influence of affective states on drivingperformance with regard to novice and young drivers. In an experimental scenario affective states (positive vs.negative valence) were induced in participants and subjects were then asked to drive predefined routes in a drivingsimulator. Results indicated that drivers drove significantly faster in a positive affective state compared with driversin a negative affective state. This effect was pronounced by trend for novice drivers.

KW - Psychology

KW - Verkehrspsychologie

KW - Traffic Psychology

KW - Novice Drivers

KW - Accident Prevention

KW - Business psychology

U2 - 10.13140/2.1.3577.6649

DO - 10.13140/2.1.3577.6649

M3 - Article in conference proceedings

SN - 978-1-4951-1572-1

SP - 8317

EP - 8325

BT - Proceeding of the 5th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics AHFE 2014

A2 - Ahram, T.

A2 - Karwowski, W.

A2 - Marek, T.

PB - The Printing House

T2 - 5th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics – AHFE 2014

Y2 - 19 July 2014 through 23 July 2014

ER -