A quarter of a century of the DBQ: some supplementary notes on its validity with regard to accidents

Journal article (2015)

Authors

J.C.F. de Winter Medical Instruments & Bio-Inspired Technology - Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering
D. Dodou Medical Instruments & Bio-Inspired Technology - Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering
N.A. Stanton External organisation
Research Group
Medical Instruments & Bio-Inspired Technology (Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2015 J.C.F. de Winter, D. Dodou, NA Stanton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2015.1030460
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2015

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English

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Faculty

Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering

Department

Biomechanical Engineering

Research Group

Medical Instruments & Bio-Inspired Technology

Abstract

This article synthesises the latest information on the relationship between the Driver Behaviour Questionnaire (DBQ) and accidents. We show by means of computer simulation that correlations with accidents are necessarily small because accidents are rare events. An updated meta-analysis on the zero-order correlations between the DBQ and self-reported accidents yielded an overall r of .13 (fixed-effect and random-effects models) for violations (57,480 participants; 67 samples) and .09 (fixed-effect and random-effects models) for errors (66,028 participants; 56 samples). An analysis of a previously published DBQ dataset (975 participants) showed that by aggregating across four measurement occasions, the correlation coefficient with self-reported accidents increased from .14 to .24 for violations and from .11 to .19 for errors. Our meta-analysis also showed that DBQ violations (r = .24; 6353 participants; 20 samples) but not DBQ errors (r = − .08; 1086 participants; 16 samples) correlated with recorded vehicle speed.

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