Daily emotional demands on traffic crashes among taxi drivers: Fatigue and safety motivation as mediators

• Main Authors: Husain, NA (Author), Idris, MA (Author), Mohamad, J (Author)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Acute fatigue; Chronic fatigue; CLIMATE; Emotional demands; EXHAUSTION; HEALTH; JOB DEMANDS; Job demands-resources (JD-R); MODEL; POLICE-OFFICERS; PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS; RECOVERY; Safety behaviour; SOCIAL STRESSORS; Taxi drivers; WORK-RELATED FATIGUE
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 Many studies have validated that emotional demands are one of themain stressors that lead to fatigue, decreasing the safety behaviour in services work-related. However, studies to date have relied on long-term emotional demands rather than on the short-termfluctuation in emotional demands. Themain aims of this research was to investigate the influence of individuals, aswell as the daily levels of emotional demands on self-reported crashes, mainly through daily acute fatigue and safety motivation. The study was conducted among taxi drivers (N = 96) over a period of six days for both, morning and afternoon sessions in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. As expected, it was found that increased levels in an individual's daily emotional demands were related to acute and chronic fatigue, where only acute fatigue had an influence on safety motivation. In addition, safety motivation decreased the rate of self-reported crashes. These results suggest that the increment level of emotional demands has an indirect relationship to traffic crash rates, mainly through fatigue and safety motivation. (C) 2019 International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences. Production and hosting by Elsevier Ltd.