Perception Of Crowded Workplace and Emotional Management Skills Predicting Safe Driving Behaviors of Public Transportation Drivers

Abstract

This research aimed 1) to study levels of safe driving behaviors, perception of crowded workplace, emotional management skills, and safe driving behaviors of public transportation drivers, 2) to study the relationship between perception of crowded workplace and safe driving behaviors of public transportation drivers, 3) to study the relationship between emotional management skills and safe driving behaviors of public transportation drivers, and 4) to study the prediction about safe driving behaviors based on perception of crowded workplace and emotional management skills of public transportation drivers. The sample was 381 public transportation drivers and the research instrument was a questionnaire. Statistics for data analysis were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearson’s correlation coefficient, partial correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple regression analysis. The research results revealed that 1) safe driving behaviors of most of the public transportation drivers were at the highest level (x̅ = 4.28, S.D. = .42), perception of crowded workplace was at a high level (x̅ = 3.94, S.D. = .79), and emotional management skills were at the highest level (x̅ = 4.23, S.D. = .42), 2) perception of crowded workplace was negatively related to safe driving behaviors of public transportation drivers, 3) emotional management skills were positively related to safe driving behaviors of public transportation drivers with the statistical significance level of 0.01, and 4) perception of crowded workplace and emotional management skills regarding emotion encoding and decoding, emotional understanding, and emotion regulation could predict safe driving behaviors by 47.20%