The Driver Behaviour Questionnaire in Arab Gulf countries: Qatar and United Arab Emirates

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1411-1417

  Bener, Abdulbari ^a,b   Özkan, Türker ^c   Lajunen, Timo ^c  

^a HAMAD GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Qatar)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Driver Behaviour Questionnaire (DBQ); Qatar; Traffic accidents; United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERRORS; FOOD PROCESSING; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ACCIDENT INVOLVEMENT; ARAB COUNTRIES; ARAB GULF; BACKGROUND INFORMATION; DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES; DRIVER BEHAVIOUR; DRIVING STYLES; ELSEVIER (CO); EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; FACTOR ANALYSIS (FA); FATALITY RATES; GULF COUNTRIES; LOGISTIC REGRESSION (LR); MANCHESTER; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE);

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QATAR; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QATAR; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK-TAKING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

EID: 46149100038     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2008.03.003     Document Type: Article

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