title: Bus drivers' mental conditions and their relation to bus passengers' accidents with a focus on the psychological stress concept.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to clarify the psychological factors of bus drivers' instability that were related to bus passengers' accidents according to the hypothesis model based on the stress concept of Lazarus and Folkman (1984). This research was carried out in 2006. Participants of the study were 39 Japanese male bus drivers. Their average age was 40.2 (SD: 11.1). The average duration of employment was 4.5 (SD:6.1) years. A questionnaire was used that was composed of items concerning the frequency of bus passengers' accidents, performance of safe driving, job stressors, stress reaction and recognition from others. Based on the results, a model assuming that stress reaction caused by job stressors disturbed the bus driver's safe driving and was associated with passengers' accidents in the bus was verified to some degree. Especially, melancholy and tired feeling toward passengers showed a strong relation to the passengers' accidents in the bus. This suggested much room for intervention. Moreover, the recognition from others of their job was confirmed to act as a control factor of the stress reaction.
authors.affiliation: Juntendo University Graduate School of Health and Sports Science, 1-1, Hiragagakuendai, Inba-mura, Inba-gun, Chiba 270-1695, Japan. jtd_last_s01@yahoo.co.jp
authors.forename: Yasuyuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: Motoki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mizuno
authors.forename: Miyuki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sugiura
authors.forename: Sumio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Yuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Mizuno
authors.forename: Toshio
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yanagiya
authors.forename: Masataka
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hirosawa
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000328:Adult; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D018986:Motor Vehicles; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D012944:Social Support; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology