Health beliefs related to driving and their relationship to excessive speeding while driving-A Field study on a sample of drivers in Batna

Abstract

This study aimed to reveal the nature of the relationship between health beliefs related to driving, represented in "perceived intensity, perceived sensitivity, perceived barriers, and perceived benefits", and excessive speed while driving. The study sample consisted of 139 drivers, 95 males and 44 females, in the State of Batna, who were selected intentionally. The descriptive correlative

 approach was used. The scale of beliefs related to driving and the scale of excessive speed behaviors were applied. After statistical treatment, the study reached the results: There is a correlation between beliefs related to driving and excessive speed behavior, the absence of a correlation between perceived intensity and excessive speed, the existence of a correlation between perceived sensitivity and excessive speed, And between perceived barriers and excessive speed, and the existence of a correlation between perceived benefits and excessive speed.The study concluded with a number of recommendations and suggestions.

Draw the attention of officials to this dangerous phenomenon and studying it carefully. As well as experts and specialists in the field of traffic psychology in preparing guidance and preventive programs to reduce traffic accidents, benefiting from the results of the current study in the areas of traffic safety by trying to understand excessive speed behavior away from physical statistical interpretations, by understanding the behavior leading to it. And thus contribute to finding effective solutions that may contribute to reducing this phenomenon and explaining it in different ways.