Research Article

Incorporating the Theory of Planned Behaviour into Distracted Driving: Influencing Factors and Intervention Effects

Table 2

Intervention courses’ content.

Course numberCourse stageCourse content

1Psychological diagnosis stageCollect distracted driving scale data, analyze the corresponding driver scale score results and the influence coefficient of psychological factors, and extract the drivers’ unreasonable beliefs
2Comprehension stageSystematically display common distracted driving behaviours and explore the motivation that induces such behaviours and understand the emotional state and risk perception of people who engaged in distracted driving
3Working through stageTeaching sessions to make drivers aware of the dangers of engaging in distracted driving, pointing out their unreasonable beliefs about such driving, and inculcating safe driving concepts to them
4Reeducation stageUsing data and pictures to build a deep understanding of all types of distracted driving behaviours and their corresponding potential risks, further enabling drivers to have self-dialectic and error-correcting abilities about distracted driving behaviours