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High anxiety and Dangerous Driving Wikipedia deďŹ nes anxiety you have high anxiety, can as “a psychological and signiďŹ cantly determine how physiological state ‌ safe a driver you are.â€? And, typically associated with said lead author Chris Dula [feelings of] uneasiness, “[We] found ‌ a small but apprehension, fear, or consistent effect in which worry. Anxiety‌ often apprehension translated to occur[s] without an dangerous driving.â€? identiďŹ able triggering An earlier Australian stimulus‌ [which study involving 75 drivers distinguishes it] from Cedric Hughes Barrister & Solicitor aged 17 to 46 also found www.roadrules.ca fear, which occurs in the a link between anxiety presence of an observed and degraded driving threat.â€? skills. Experts at the Queensland University of Anxiety levels vary from mild all the way to Technology (QUT) found that anxiety was one of full-blown panic attacks and obsessions. The the main reasons why drivers â€œďŹ nd it increasingly ScienceDaily website reports that nearly 5 percent difďŹ cult to focus their attention on where they of the US population suffers from persistent are going. This inattention promotes a signiďŹ cant depression or anxiety while the Anxiety Disorders increase in the number of car accidents, the Association of Canada calls it the “secret diseaseâ€? scientists [said].â€? Ides Wong, an expert with effecting 12 percent of Canadians “with many the QUT Center for Accident Research & Road more suffering in silence.â€? Safety, offered the following explanation for the People who have suffered physical or traumatic connection between anxiety and dangerous injuries in car crashes not uncommonly develop driving: “Being anxious makes drivers unable to ‘anxiety’ about driving. Driving phobia is an fully focus their attention on the road, particularly extreme level of anxiety about driving. These in urban areas, where there are plenty of driving-related anxieties have been studied distractions and when time pressured.â€? “relatively frequentlyâ€? according to the journal The Australian study also found that as driving Accident Analysis and Prevention. What hasn’t tasks became increasingly difďŹ cult, highly anxious been studied as extensively, however, is the effect drivers had signiďŹ cantly longer response times. of general anxiety on driver behaviour. Researchers concluded this indicated that highly The November issue of the ScienceDaily journal anxious drivers maintained accuracy at the contains US research connecting people with expense of response time. high-level general anxiety with more incidents Authors of the US study suggested that of dangerous driving. The study of 1,120 people incorporating warnings about anxiety into driver with high level general anxiety aged 17 to 55 with training programs, and encouraging people driving experience ranging from six months to 35 prone to anxiety to seek professional help, would years, found they appeared to cause signiďŹ cantly be a good start to addressing the problem for more crashes, drove intoxicated more frequently, road-users of all ages. “Anxiety is something that’s and demonstrated higher incidences of reckless very easy, relatively speaking, to address,â€? said road manoeuvres. Professor Miesner. “There’s no reason to not deal Study co-author Michael Miesner of the with it, and risk driving unsafely.â€? Department of Psychology, East Tennessee ‌by Cedric Hughes, Barrister & Solicitor State University, said “What we consider to be a with regular weekly contributions from relatively minor personality trait, whether or not Leslie McGufďŹ n, LL.B.
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