Determining Subgroups of Teens for Targeted Driving Injury Prevention Strategies: A Latent Class Analysis Approach

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 258-264

  Elliott, Michael R ^a,b   Jacobsohn, Lela ^c   Winston, Flaura K ^c   Ginsburg, Kenneth R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Belief profile; Locus of control; Passenger vehicle

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CAR DRIVING; CONTROL; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861616023     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2011.648289     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Arthur, W Jr and Doverspike, D. 1992. Locus of control and auditory selective attention as predictors of driving accident involvement: a comparative longitudinal investigation. J Safety Res., 23: 73-80.
2. Bingham, C R, Shope, J T, Parow, J E and Raghunathan, T E. 2010. Crash risk among teen drivers: identification and prediction of excess risk. Available at: http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/57284/1/UMTRI-2007-13.pdf. Accessed June 10
3. Clogg, C C. 1995. "Latent class models". In Handbook of Statistical Models for the Behavior and Social Sciences, Edited by: Arminger, G, Clogg, C C and Sobel, M E. New York, NY: Plenum Press.
4. Collins, L M, Fidler, P L, Wugalter, S E and Long, J D. 1993. Goodness-of-fit testing for latent class models. Multivariate Behav Res., 28: 375-389.
5. Derry, H, Kowadlo, N, Westphal-Wedding, T and Fides, B. 1998. Identifying Subtypes of Young Novice Drivers: Implications for Matching Driver Training to the Needs of the Driver, Monash University Accident Research Center. Report No. 142. Available at: http://www.monash.edu.au/muarc/reports/muarc142.pdf. Accessed March 30, 2010
6. Fouts, G and Vaughan, K. 2002. Locus of control, television viewing, and eating disorder symptomatology in young females. J Adolesc., 25: 307-311.
7. Gestsdóttir, G and Lerner, R M. 2008. Positive development in adolescence: the development and role of intentional self regulation. Hum Dev., 51: 202-224.
8. Ginsburg, K, Winston, F KSenserrick, T. 2008. The National Young Driver Survey: the teen perspective and experience with factors that affect driving safety. Pediatrics., 121: 1391-1403.
9. Hafetz, J S, Jacobson, L S, Garcia-Espana, J F, Curry, A E and Winston, F K. 2010. Adolescent drivers' perceptions of the advantages and disadvantages of abstention from in-vehicle cell phone use. Accid Anal Prev., 42: 1570-1576.
10. Holland, C, Geraghu, J and Shah, K. 2010. Differential moderating effect of locus of control on effect of driving experience in young male and female drivers. Pers Individ Dif., 48: 821-826.
11. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. 2008. Fatality facts 2008: teenagers. Available at: http://www.iihs.org/research/fatality_facts_2008/teenagers.html. Accessed March 30, 2011
12. Jelicic, H, Bobek, D, Phelps, E D, Lerner, J V and Lerner, R M. 2007. Using positive youth development to predict contribution and risk behaviors in early adolescence: findings from the first two waves of the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development. Int J Behav Dev., 31: 263-273.
13. Keating, D P and Halpern-Felsher, B L. 2008. Adolescent drivers: a developmental perspective on risk, proficiency, and safety. Am J Prev Med., 35(SUPPL.): 272-277.
14. Lajunen, T and Rasanen, M. 2004. Can social psychological models be used to promote bicycle helmet use among teenagers? A comparison of the health belief model, theory of planned behavior and the locus of control. J Safety Res., 35: 115-123.
15. Lerner, R M. 2001. Promoting promotion in the development of prevention science. Appl Dev Sci., 5: 254-257.
16. Martin, S S, Young, M E and Ting, L. 2001. Internal poverty and teen pregnancy. Adolescence., 36: 289-304.
17. Mayhew, D R. 2007. Driver education and graduated licensing in North America: past, present, and future. J Safety Res., 38: 229-235.
18. Montag, I and Comrey, A L. 1987. Internality and externality as correlates of involvement in fatal driving accidents. J Appl Psychol., 72: 339-343.
19. Muthen, B and Shedden, K. 1999. Finite mixture modeling with mixture outcomes using the EM algorithm. Biometrics., 55: 463-469.
20. Riccio-Howe, L. 1991. Health values, locus of control, and cues to action as predictors of adolescent safety belt use. J Adolesc Health., 12: 256-262.
21. Rich, M and Ginsburg, K R. 1999. The reason and rhyme of qualitative research: why, when and how to use qualitative research in the study of adolescent health. J Adolesc Health., 25: 371-378.
22. Rotter, JB. 1954. Social Learning and Clinical Psychology, New York, NY: Prentice-Hall.
23. Rubin, A G, Gold, M A and Primack, B A. 2009. Associations between depressive symptoms and sexual risk behavior in a diverse sample of female adolescents. J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol., 22: 306-312.
24. Schwarz, G. 1978. Estimating the dimension of a model. Ann Stat., 6: 461-464.
25. Shope, J. 2007. Graduated driver licensing: review of evaluation results since 2002. J Safety Res., 38: 165-175.
26. Wallston, K A, Wallston, B S and DeVellis, R. 1978. Health Educ Monogr., 6: 160-170.
27. Williams, A F and Mayhew, D R. 2008. Graduated licensing and beyond. Am J Prev Med., 35(SUPPL.): 324-333.
28. Williams, A F and Shults, R A. 2010. Graduated driver licensing research, 2007 present: a review and commentary. J Safety Res., 41: 77-84.