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Real or Imagined? A Study Exploring the Existence of Common Method Variance Effects in Road Safety Research
Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation: Part I, pp.1-12
AHFE Open Access, 15, AHFE International
2021
Abstract
Common method variance (CMV) has received little attention within the field of road safety research despite a heavy reliance on self-report data. Two surveys were completed by 214 motorists over a two-month period, allowing associations between social desirability and key road safety variables and relationships between scales across the two survey waves to be examined. Social desirability was found to have a strong negative correlation with the Driver Behaviour Questionnaire (DBQ) sub-scales as well as age, but not with crashes and offences. Drivers who scored higher on the social desirability scale were also less likely to report aberrant driving behaviours as measured by the DBQ. Controlling for social desirability did not substantially alter the predictive relationship between the DBQ and the crash and offences variables. The strength of the correlations within and between the two waves were also compared with the results strongly suggesting that effects associated with CMV were present. Identification of CMV would be enhanced by the replication of this study with a larger sample size and comparing self-report data with official sources.
Details
- Title
- Real or Imagined? A Study Exploring the Existence of Common Method Variance Effects in Road Safety Research
- Authors
- Peter Barraclough (Author) - Queensland University of TechnologyAnders af Wåhlberg (Author) - Queensland University of TechnologyJames Freeman (Author) - Queensland University of TechnologyJeremy Davey (Author) - Queensland University of TechnologyBarry Watson (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
- Contributors
- Neville A Stanton (Editor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Centre for Human Factors and Systems ScienceSteven J Landry (Editor)Giuseppe Di Bucchianico (Editor) - University of Chieti-PescaraAndrea Vallicelli (Editor) - University of Chieti-Pescara
- Publication details
- Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation: Part I, pp.1-12
- Series
- AHFE Open Access; 15
- Publisher
- AHFE International
- Date published
- 2021
- DOI
- 10.54941/ahfe100633; 10.54941/ahfe100602
- ISSN
- 2771-0718
- Copyright note
- The authors of papers published in the AHFE Open Access Proceedings will retain full copyrights as specified by the provisions of the Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Organisation Unit
- Centre for Human Factors and Systems Science; Road Safety Research Collaboration; Graduate Research School; School of Health - Nutrition & Dietetics; School of Health and Sport Sciences - Legacy; School of Science, Technology and Engineering; School of Law and Society; Sexual Violence Research and Prevention Unit; School of Health - Midwifery; School of Health - Public Health
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99984375402621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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