Abstract

Mothers attending infant children usually experience high levels of fatigue, and fatigue has been shown to be related to car crashes through attentional errors, among other causes. The current study investigates the effects of fatigue on the attentional errors while driving of women attending infant children. A sample of 112 women—67 attending infant children and 45 not attending—filled out self-report questionnaires assessing acute fatigue, chronic fatigue, and attention-related driving errors. A mediational analysis showed that women attending infant children had higher levels of fatigue, and that chronic fatigue, but not acute fatigue, was related to attentional errors while driving.

Details

Title
Chronic, but not acute, fatigue predicts self-reported attentional driving errors in mothers attending infant children
Author
Sánchez-García, Mar 1 ; Valero-Mora, Pedro M 1 ; Carvajal, Eva 2 ; Sanmartín, Jaime 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

1  Facultad de Psicología, Departamento de Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación, Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain 
2  Hospital Casa de Salud Valencia, Valencia, Spain 
Pages
1-9
Publication year
2019
Publication date
Sep 2019
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-49223-9
ProQuest document ID
2284618438
Copyright
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