Reports from West University of Timisoara Highlight Recent Findings in Risk Management (Implicit attitudes towards risky driving: Development and…

Reports from West University of Timisoara Highlight Recent Findings in Risk Management (Implicit attitudes towards risky driving: Development and validation of an affect misattribution procedure for speeding)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News -- Investigators discuss new findings in Risk Management. According to news reporting out of Timisoara, Romania, by VerticalNews editors, research stated, "The present study aimed to develop and validate an instrument for measuring implicit attitudes towards speeding, based on the Affect Misattribution Procedure (AMP). The data collected from 140 drivers supported the reliability of the AMP (alpha = 0.80)."

Financial support for this research came from Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research and Innovation.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the West University of Timisoara, "Results provided some support for the construct validity of the AMP, through its convergence with explicit attitudes towards speeding (r = 0.22). Also, the AMP incrementally predicted driving violations (Delta R-2 = 0.034) and traffic accidents (Delta R-2 = 0.022), above and beyond demographic variables and explicit attitudes towards speeding, thus providing initial evidence for its criterion validity. The multiplicative interaction effect between implicit and explicit attitudes (in predicting the same criterion variables) was not supported."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "Overall, our results provide support for Speeding-AMP's validity and reliability, which can be successfully used in research concerning risky driving behavior."

For more information on this research see: Implicit attitudes towards risky driving: Development and validation of an affect misattribution procedure for speeding. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 2017;100():15-22. Accident Analysis and Prevention can be contacted at: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, England. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Accident Analysis and Prevention - www.journals.elsevier.com/accident-analysis-and-prevention/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting P. Sarbescu, West Univ Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania. Additional authors for this research include P. Sarbescu, D. Moza and A. Stancu.

Keywords for this news article include: Timisoara, Romania, Europe, Risk Management, West University of Timisoara.

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