title: Development of a short test for accident proneness.
abstract: In developing the Accident Proneness Prediction Test to measure motor control skills related to safety aptitudes subjects were instructed to draw on a sheet of paper as many circles as possible within a limited amount of time. The responses were scored in terms of the speed and quality (irregularities) of the produced circles. Although 103 accident-prone drivers produced more circles than the 178 good drivers, the quality of performance of the accident-prone drivers was poorer than that of the good drivers. Based on this validity study, we proposed these predictive criteria for further testing of accident proneness.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Education, Osaka Kyoiku University, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Matsuoka
mesh_terms: D000057:Accident Proneness; D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D001077:Aptitude Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D001334:Automobile Driving; D006801:Humans; D009048:Motor Skills; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D015203:Reproducibility of Results