Conference paper · Book chapter
Comparison between young male drivers' self-assessed and objectively measured driving skills
Self-assessment of skills is a self-generated feedback process that contributes to confidence in one's skills. The higher one's self-assessed skills, the more likely one is to feel competent a particular domain thereby influencing the related behaviors. Drivers' self-assessed driving skills are not always accurate, which may cause serious problems such as underestimation of risk, reckless driving and accidents.
Most previous research on self-assessment of driving skills did not compare self-reported skills to objectively measured driving skills, so the aim of this study was to test the accuracy of young male drivers' self-assessments of driving skills using a driving simulator, and to examine whether self-assessment accuracy varied with driving skill, experience or sensation-seeking propensity.
Results showed that the drivers' self-assessments were inconsistent with their driving performance, and this inconsistency varied with driving skill, driving experience and sensation-seeking propensity in a safety-critical way.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | Springer |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Pages: | 787-797 |
| Proceedings: | 8th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics |
| Series: | Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing |
| Journal subtitle: | Proceedings of the Ahfe 2017 International Conference on Human Factors in Transportation, July 17−21, 2017, the Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles, California, Usa |
| ISBN: | 3319604406 , 3319604414 , 9783319604404 and 9783319604411 |
| ISSN: | 21945357 |
| Types: | Conference paper and Book chapter |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-60441-1_75 |
| ORCIDs: | Martinussen, Laila Marianne and Møller, Mette |
