title: Associations between age, gender, psychosocial and health characteristics in the Candrive II study cohort.
abstract: The relations among driving-related psychosocial measures (e.g., driving comfort, attitudes toward driving) and measures of self-reported health were examined in the context of driver characteristics (i.e., age and gender) within the Canadian Driving Research Initiative for Vehicular Safety in the Elderly (Candrive II) baseline data, available for the cohort of 928 drivers, 70 years of age and older. Older members of the cohort had lower comfort scores and poorer perceptions of their driving abilities. Men reported significantly higher levels of driving comfort than women. When analyses including health were controlled for age and gender, significant relations with health status were evident for most of the psychosocial measures. These findings extend previous research and suggest that attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions about driving may be influenced by health status and act as mediators in the self-regulation process.
authors.affiliation: Centre on Aging, University of Victoria, PO Box 1700, STN CSC, Victoria, BC, V8W 2Y2 Canada. Electronic address: htuokko@uvic.ca.
authors.forename: Holly
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tuokko
authors.forename: Anita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Myers
authors.forename: Alexandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jouk
authors.forename: Shawn
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Marshall
authors.forename: Malcolm
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Man-Son-Hing
authors.forename: Michelle M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Porter
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bédard
authors.forename: Isabelle
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gélinas
authors.forename: Nicol
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Korner-Bitensky
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mazer
authors.forename: Gary
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Naglie
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rapoport
authors.forename: Brenda
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Vrkljan
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001290:Attitude; D001334:Automobile Driving / Q000523:psychology*; D002170:Canada; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012737:Sex Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Attitudes; Health; Older drivers; Perceptions