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Parent-Adolescent Communication about Driving-Related Risks and Risk-Reducing Strategies

Items focus on various risky driving topics. An example item is “the kinds of risky driving situations that might come up in his or her friend group”. For each topic, parents select from one of the following response choices: “never talked about” (0); “talked about once or twice” (1); “talked about three or four times” (2); “talked about a lot, about 5 times or more” (3)

School Safe Driving Climate Assessment (SSDCA) 

Items focus on rules and norms related to safe driving, the school’s provision of safe driving resources, and opportunities for students to learn to value safety (example item: “People in my school talk about the importance of safe driving”; response options 1 = strongly disagree to 7 = strongly agree).  Because the SSDCA was used in conjunction with a program evaluation, participants first gave their response for “After the Program” and then “Before the Program.”  Using retrospective pretest design to mitigate response-shift bias and minimize administrative burden.

Parent and Adolescent Perceived Social Support for Practice Driving

Items focus on emotional and instrumental support related to parent supervised practice driving. An example item is “Overall, I feel my parent supports me in the practice driving process.” Both 5 and 7-point response scales have been used (Never to Always). There are parent-report and teen-report scales that can be used together or separately.

Parental Engagement as Practice Supervisor

Items focus on different aspects of practice driving supervision. An example items is “Clearly explain what skills I want my teen to practice.” Response choices include frequency, stress, injunctive norms, and self-efficacy (e.g., I definitely would not be able to (1) – I definitely would be able to (7)).

Parent-Supervised Practice Diversity

Practice diversity is indexed across six environments using a six-point modified frequency scale: 1, “none”; 2, “less than 1 hour”; 3, “1–2 hours”; 4, “3–5 hours”; 5, “6–10 hours”; and 6, “more than 10 hours”. Parents and learner drivers can each report how much driving was completed in: (1) empty parking lots; (2) residential neighbourhoods; (3) one- or two-lane intermediate roads; (4) rural roads; (5) commercial roads (e.g., around shops and businesses); and (6) highways.

Practical Driving Assessments

Practical driving ability is assessed in live traffic by qualified professional driver evaluators using a systematic and manualised approach.

Validation of a performance-based driving assessment: Implications for licensing young drivers