ArticleAccident; analysis and prevention2017
Texting while driving, executive function, and impulsivity in college students.
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- A hierarchical cluster analysis of young drivers based on their perceived risk and frequency of texting while driving.Journal of safety research · 2023Article
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- Relationships between Personality Traits and Brain Gray Matter Are Different in Risky and Non-risky Drivers.Behavioural neurology · 2022Article
- Rethinking Cell Phone Use While Driving: Isolated Risk Behavior or a Pattern of Risk-Taking Associated with Impulsivity in Young Drivers?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Motor Vehicle Collisions during Adolescence: The Role of Alexithymic Traits and Defense Strategies.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Arabic version of the Hayling sentence completion test: scale validation, normative data and factors associated with executive functions in a sample of the Lebanese adults.Head & face medicine · 2020Article
- Driving Safety in Adolescents and Young Adults With Type 1 Diabetes.Diabetes spectrum : a publication of the American Diabetes Association · 2020Article
- Linking executive functions to distracted driving, does it differ between young and mature drivers?PloS one · 2020Article
- Low Self-Control, Social Learning, and Texting while Driving.American journal of criminal justice : AJCJ · 2019Article
- Threat appeals reduce impulsive decision making associated with texting while driving: A behavioral economic approach.PloS one · 2019Article
- The roles of delay and probability discounting in texting while driving: Toward the development of a translational scientific program.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2018Article
- Executive function and dangerous driving behaviors in young drivers.Transportation research. Part F, Traffic psychology and behaviour · 2018Article
- Executive Function Capacities, Negative Driving Behavior and Crashes in Young Drivers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017Review
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Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the cognitive processes underlying texting while driving. A sample of 120 college students completed a survey to assess how frequently they send and read a text message while driving. Based on this information, students were assigned to one of two groups: 20 students who frequently text while driving and 20 matched-control students who infrequently text while driving but were similar in gender, age, years of education, and years driving. The groups were compared on the extent to which they differed in self-reported measures of executive function and impulsivity. The groups were also compared on a behavioral measure of impulsivity: the extent to which they discounted hypothetical monetary rewards as a function of the delay. For this measure, the students made repeated choices between smaller monetary rewards available immediately and larger rewards available after delays ranging from 1 week to 6 months. The results show that the group of students who frequently text while driving showed (a) significantly lower levels of executive function and (b) higher levels of self-reported impulsivity, although the groups did not differ significantly on the behavioral measure of impulsivity. These results support a general conclusion that drivers with lower levels of executive function and higher levels of impulsivity are more likely to text while driving.
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