An Investigation into the Lifestyle of Tehran’s Young Drivers with Driving Accidents

Document Type : پژوهشی

Authors

• mojtaba Abbaciasl ¹
• Siamak Tahmasebi ²
• Seyed mohamad hosein Javadi ²
• Alireza Karimpour Vazifeh Khorani ³
• Forough Edrisi ⁴
• Esmaiel Soltani ⁴
• Sadollah Hashemirazini ⁵
• Nader Rahmani ⁶
• Fariba Karimlou ⁶

¹ kharazmi

² University of social welfare and rehabilitation of Tehran

³ University of Tabriz

⁴ Shahid Beheshti University

⁵ Alameh Tabatabaie University

⁶ University of Tehran

10.22067/ijap.v7i1.63119

Abstract

Purpose: The present study aims at investigating the lifestyle of Tehran’s young drivers with driving accidents.
Method: The applied research method was correlation. Stratified sampling method was used to select the insurance centers, hospitals, correctional and prison cells. The target population included all people in Tehran with the age range of 18 to 24 who had experienced a car crash. From among this population, 576 patients were selected. The instrument used in this study is the lifestyle questionnaire of Almahmoud, Simmons, and El Asfar.
Findings: There was a significant relationship between the accident background and the lifestyle dimensions; Driving Style (0/124) and Social Factors (-0/13) (p

Keywords

• life style
• Young driver
• driving accident

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