This review provides an overview of the scientific evidence that could guide improvements in theory-informed approaches to traffic safety. In particular, this review focuses on two groups of road users with high rates of crash-involvement: adolescent/young adult drivers and serious traffic offenders. In organising a review of the relevant psychosocial, judgement and decision-making predictors of traffic safety, we hope to create a more comprehensive blueprint for intervention content and delivery. However, cognitive and psychosocial constructs alone cannot complete the blueprint. This review aims to contribute to this literature by delineating cognitive, behavioural, environmental and physiological characteristics influencing driving behaviour in a conceptual framework emerging from this review. The specific aims of this review include: • identifying predictor and intervention research relating to psychosocial, judgement, and decision-making factors and driving behaviour through the use of a variety of databases and search strategies; • organising a relational database for the literature review; • cataloguing and critiquing studies based on their methodological and substantive components; • developing a conceptual framework for the literature review; • creating a better understanding of the weight of research evidence supporting the conceptual framework; and • discussing directions for future research and future traffic safety programming. This review supports the Primary Report (Strecher et al., 2006), entitled Intervention Modalities to Address Relevant Psychosocial Predictors of Driving Behaviour Among Novice Drivers. The Primary Report examines the relevant psychosocial factors found in traffic safety but also in other health behaviour areas. The Primary Report then examines specific intervention modalities that have or have not worked and makes recommendations for intervention modalities that are likely to address the most relevant psychosocial predictors. (Author/publisher)
Samenvatting