RATES OF INFORMATION AWARENESS ON AGGRESSIVE DRIVING AS THE INDICATORS OF THE EXISTING PROBLEMS IN THE SECTOR OF SPECIAL EDUCATION
Journal Title: Problems of Psychology in the 21st Century - Year 2012, Vol 4, Issue 11
Abstract
In the road traffc feld the biggest danger is caused by a phenomenon of „aggressive driving”. The topicality of the problematic issue is noted by such organizations like the WHO and the UNO; as a result of this the term “aggressive driving” was introduced in Latvia on the legislative level. In the territory of Latvia a multistage study was performed; its aim was to study ideas of drivers on aggressive driving. During the study the following methods were used: method of associations, method of unfnished sentence, structured, partially structured and non-structured interview, personal differential method, socially demographic questionnaire and Aggressive Driving Questionnaire (Jenenkova, 2009). In all, 2160 drivers representing all regions of Latvia were questioned. As a result of the study one of the components of ideas on aggressive driving was found out – information awareness, which is considered in this article. Information awareness is represented by the following component parts: self- evaluation of terminology knowledge (expected level), level of term understanding (expected level), term knowledge (real level), level of term understanding (real level), level of agreement with the formulation, information sources. During the comparative analysis of drivers’ group and inspectors’ group of the road traffc not only their differences by these components were discovered, but also the current problems in relation to the terminology knowledge and understanding were found out.
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oksana Jenenkova
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