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The following study will explore the link between mindfulness, driver inattention and a number of driving performance variables that were tested using the SIMUVEG driving simulator. 67 subjects between the ages of 19 and 27 completed the mindful attention awareness scale, attention-related driving errors scale and attention-related cognitive errors scale questionnaires, and were evaluated in two driving performance measures: time to line-crossing and mean speed. The results did not show a correlation between driving performance and mindfulness measures; they did show low but significant correlations with driver inattention measures. A regression analysis suggested that the specific measure of driver inattention is a predictor of driving performance, but the more general measures are not. These results are relevant to the assessment of psychological variables associated with driving performance.

Inspec keywords: traffic engineering computing; psychology; digital simulation; cognition; regression analysis

Other keywords: regression analysis; time to line-crossing; attention-related cognitive error scale questionnaires; SIMUVEG driving simulator; attention-related driving error scale; psychological variable assessment; mindfulness measures; mean speed; driving performance measures; mindful attention awareness scale; driver inattention measures; driving performance variables

Subjects: Social and behavioural sciences computing; Traffic engineering computing

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