The cross cultural study on driving behaviour of Malaysian ageing automobile drivers

This study focuses on the application of the Malaysian Driving Behaviour Questionnaire(DBQ). The aim of this study is to investigate and analyse the significant driving behaviour of the ageing Malaysian automobile drivers. The sets of questionnaire was completed by a total number of 102 ageing drivers consists of 58 males (56.86%) and 44 females (43.14%). The age of respondents ranges from 50 to 75 years (M = 57.21) and (SD = 5.60). The DBQ contains 12 items of demographic questions and 41 items measuring driving behaviour in traffic. The driving behaviours were classified into four factors which are driving distractions, violations, errors and lapses. The most significant correlation coefficient is between age and distractions (r = 0.456, p<0.01), then followed by lapses, violations and errors. Meanwhile, the correlation between age and error shows the least correlation among all factors (r = 0.229, p